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Atmospheric chemistry
A scientific study of the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets.
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hypsometry
Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry
Hypsometry is a technique of mapping the elevation contour of both land and the ocean floor using tinting to illustrate a change in contour.
latent heat
Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry
If a change of state occurs from gas to liquid or liquid to solid, internal energy in the form of heat is released. If a change of state occurs from solid to liquid or liquid to gas, heat is ...
ozone destruction
Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry
In addition to photolytic destruction by infrared light (wavelengths of 1140 nanometers or less), stratospheric ozone is destroyed by interaction with a variety of chemical substances in the ...
propagation
Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry
In chemical terms, a propagation step is any step but the first, initial step, in a chain reaction (a series of chemical reactions in which the first reaction causes the second which causes the ...
recombination
Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry
In chemical terms, a recombination is one of the ways in which free radicals are lost (the other being disproportionation). In this case, two free radicals join to create one product. This could be ...
vertical flux
Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry
In dry deposition this refers to the rate at which a gas particle is deposited onto another surface without the aid of precipitation. Vertical flux equals concentration of the species multiplied by ...
stratus cloud
Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry
In general, clouds are classified and named according to their appearance and altitude at which they occur, being either high, medium, or low. Stratus clouds are low clouds, and as the root word ...
