Atmospheric chemistry

Atmospheric chemistry

A scientific study of the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets.

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Atmospheric chemistry

stratocumulus clouds

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

Low altitude gray colored clouds composed of water droplets that have a patchy appearance. Each cloud patch consists of a rounded mass. This cloud has a somewhat uniform base and normally covers ...

Measurement unit for determining the total amount of ozone present in a vertical column of air above the surface of the earth. An air layer at atmospheric pressure of 1013 hPa and temperature of 298 ...

mercury

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

Mercury is a toxic heavy metal released into the atmosphere, most significantly, through the burning of coal in coal-fired power plants and from Hg-cell chloralkali plants where Hg acts as a flowing ...

zeolite

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

Microporus silicate or aluminosilicate structured minerals that can act as an absorbing filter or sieve on a molecular level. Mainly used by the petroleum industry for the cracking of petroleum or ...

ozone formation

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

Molecular oxygen in the stratosphere is broken into a pair of oxygen radicals by light with a wavelength of 240 nanometers or less. If one of these O radicals encounters an oxygen molecule, it can ...

nitrogen

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

N 2 , a colorless, tasteless, odorless gas which makes up 78. 1% of the atmosphere. Atmospheric nitrogen is converted by nitrogen fixation and nitrification into compounds used by plants and ...

nitrous oxide

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

N 2 O, this is a by-product of biological activity of a symbiotic bacteria living in leguminous plant roots. It is a principal greenhouse gas that absorbs in the infrared wavelength region and ...