Cosmics

More recently Andrews and Juzeliunas [6, 7] developed a unified tlieory that embraces botli radiationless (Forster) and long-range radiative energy transfer. In otlier words tliis tlieory is valid over tire whole span of distances ranging from tliose which characterize molecular stmcture (nanometres) up to cosmic distances. It also addresses tire intennediate range where neitlier tire radiative nor tire Forster mechanism is fully valid. Below is tlieir expression for tire rate of pairwise energy transfer w from donor to acceptor, applicable to transfer in systems where tire donor and acceptor are embedded in a transparent medium of refractive index ... 

METHOD 3 The authors next stepped back and considered the cosmic imbalance caused by that 6-day reaction time. The next recipe was what they came up with. 

As cosmic rays pass through the upper atmosphere, some of the present is converted to by the capture of high-energy neutrons. The then migrates into... 

Application of an electric field between two metal electrodes causes a few ions and electrons to be desorbed and is surface or thermal emission (see Chapter 7 for more information on thermal ionization). Unless the electrodes are heated strongly, the number of electrons emitted is very small, but, even at normal temperatures, this emission does add to the small number of electrons caused by cosmic radiation and is continuous. 

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Percentage of meteorites seen to fall. Chondrites. Over 90% of meteorites that are observed to fall out of the sky are classified as chondrites, samples that are distinguished from terrestrial rocks in many ways (3). One of the most fundamental is age. Like most meteorites, chondrites have formation ages close to 4.55 Gyr. Elemental composition is also a property that distinguishes chondrites from all other terrestrial and extraterrestrial samples. Chondrites basically have undifferentiated elemental compositions for most nonvolatile elements and match solar abundances except for moderately volatile elements. The most compositionaHy primitive chondrites are members of the type 1 carbonaceous (Cl) class. The analyses of the small number of existing samples of this rare class most closely match estimates of solar compositions (5) and in fact are primary source solar or cosmic abundances data for the elements that cannot be accurately determined by analysis of lines in the solar spectmm (Table 2). Table 2. Solar System Abundances of the Elements ... 

Origin. Typical meteorites have formation ages of 4.55 Gyr and exposure ages of only 10 years, duting which time they existed as meter-sized bodies unshielded to the effects of cosmic rays. With the exception of the SNC (Martian) and lunar meteorites it is widely befleved that most conventional... 

Collection. IDPs can be coUected in space although the high relative velocity makes nondestmctive capture difficult. Below 80 km altitude, IDPs have decelerated from cosmic velocity and coUection is not a problem however, particles that are large or enter a very high velocity are modified by heating. Typical 5-)J.m IDPs are heated to 400°C during atmospheric entry whereas most particles larger than 100 ]Am are heated above 1300°C, when they melt to form cosmic spherules (Pig. 6). 

Pig. 6. A 0.3-mm-diameter cosmic spherule coUected from the ocean floor. The particle is composed of oUvine, glass, and magnetite and has a primary element composition similar to chondritic meteorites for nonvolatile elements. The shape is the result of melting and rapid recrystaUi2ation during... 

Extraterrestrial dust particles can be proven to be nonterrestrial by a variety of methods, depending on the particle si2e. Unmelted particles have high helium. He, contents resulting from solar wind implantation. In 10-)J.m particles the concentration approaches l/(cm g) at STP and the He He ratio is close to the solar value. Unmelted particles also often contain preserved tracks of solar cosmic rays that are seen in the electron microscope as randomly oriented linear dislocations in crystals. Eor larger particles other cosmic ray irradiation products such as Mn, Al, and Be can be detected. Most IDPs can be confidently distinguished from terrestrial materials by composition. Typical particles have elemental compositions that match solar abundances for most elements. TypicaUy these have chondritic compositions, and in descending order of abundance are composed of O, Mg, Si, Ee, C, S, Al, Ca, Ni, Na, Cr, Mn, and Ti. 

However, reaction 7 suffers other shortcomings, eg, entropy problems. Other proposals range from trace peroxidic contaminants to ionic mechanisms for generating peroxides (1) to cosmic rays (17). In any event, the initiating reactions are significant only during the induction period (18). 

G. G. Goles, "Cosmic Abundances," in ELandbook of Geochemistry, Vol. 1, Springer-Vedag, Berlin, New York, 1969. 

However, it is produced in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays (18,19). 

Classical astronomy is largely concerned with the classification of stars without regard to the details of their constituent plasmas (63). Only more recently have sateUite-bome observations begun to yield detailed data from the high temperature regions of other stellar plasmas. Cosmic plasmas of diverse size scales have been discussed (64). 

H. Alfven, Cosmic Plasma, Kleuwer, Boston, Mass., 1981. 

Background Radiation. If the radiation from a radioactive source is measured, the spectmm also includes contributions from the radiations from the surrounding environment. This includes radiations from the radioactivity in the materials in and around the detector, including the stmcture of the building or nearby earth. There is also cosmic radiation that comes from space and interacts with the earth and atmosphere to produce radiations that may enter the detector, and thus is observed. 

There is a very low cosmic abundance of boron, but its occurrence at all is surprising for two reasons. First, boron s isotopes are not involved in a star s normal chain of thermonuclear reactions, and second, boron should not survive a star s extreme thermal condition. The formation of boron has been proposed to arise predominantly from cosmic ray bombardment of interstellar gas in a process called spallation (1). 

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