Planet

An extraordinary document which explains with eloquence and passion how we should go about the care and maintenance of a small planet . 

A still different approach to multilayer adsorption considers that there is a potential field at the surface of a solid into which adsorbate molecules fall. The adsorbed layer thus resembles the atmosphere of a planet—it is most compressed at the surface of the solid and decreases in density outward. The general idea is quite old, but was first formalized by Polanyi in about 1914—see Brunauer [34]. As illustrated in Fig. XVII-12, one can draw surfaces of equipo-tential that appear as lines in a cross-sectional view of the surface region. The space between each set of equipotential surfaces corresponds to a definite volume, and there will thus be a relationship between potential U and volume 0. 

Ferguson E E, Fehsenfeld F C, Dunkin D B, Schmeltekopf A L and Schiff FI I 1964 Laboratory studies of helium ion loss processes of interest in the ionosphere Planet Space Scl. 12 1169-71... 

For remote sensing, spectroscopy at THz frequencies holds the key to our ability to remotely sense enviromnents as diverse as primaeval galaxies, star and planet-fonuing molecular cloud cores, comets and planetary atmospheres. 

The application in [24] is to celestial mechanics, in which the reduced problem for consists of the Keplerian motion of planets around the sun and in which the impulses account for interplanetary interactions. Application to MD is explored in [14]. It is not easy to find a reduced problem that can be integrated analytically however. The choice /f = 0 is always possible and this yields the simple but effective leapfrog/Stormer/Verlet method, whose use according to [22] dates back to at least 1793 [5]. This connection should allay fears concerning the quality of an approximation using Dirac delta functions. 

Hydrogen is the primary component of Jupiter and the other gas giant planets. At some depth in the... 

Latin carbo, charcoal) Carbon, an element of prehistoric discovery, is very widely distributed in nature. It is found in abundance in the sun, stars, comets, and atmospheres of most planets. Carbon in the form of microscopic diamonds is found in some meteorites. 

Gr. phosphoros, light bearing ancient name for the planet Venus when appearing before sunrise) Brand discovered phosphorus in 1669 by preparing it from urine. 

Anglo-Saxon lead L. plumbum) Long known, mentioned in Exodus. The alchemists believed lead to be the oldest metal and associated with the planet Saturn. Native lead occurs in nature, but it is rare. 

Planet Uranus) Yellow-colored glass, containing more than 1% uranium oxide and dating back to 79 A.D., has been found near Naples, Italy. Klaproth recognized an unknown element in pitchblende and attempted to isolate the metal in 1789. 

Planet pluto) Plutonium was the second transuranium element of the actinide series to be discovered. The isotope 238pu was produced in 1940 by Seaborg, McMillan, Kennedy, and Wahl by deuteron bombardment of uranium in the 60-inch cyclotron at Berkeley, California. Plutonium also exists in trace quantities in naturally occurring uranium ores. It is formed in much the same manner as neptunium, by irradiation of natural uranium with the neutrons which are present. 

Chirality (handedness) is older than life on tliis planet. Still it was not until 1848 when Pasteur manually separated enantiomeric crystals that chirality in chemistry was first appreciated ". The independent work of Van t Hoff and Le Bel revealed the molecirlar origin behind this phenomenon. 

When considering how the evolution of life could have come about, the seeding of terrestrial life by extraterrestrial bacterial spores traveling through space (panspermia) deserves mention. Much is said about the possibility of some form of life on other planets, including Mars or more distant celestial bodies. Is it possible for some remnants of bacterial life, enclosed in a protective coat of rock dust, to have traveled enormous distances, staying dormant at the extremely low temperature of space and even surviving deadly radiation The spore may be neither alive nor completely dead, and even after billions of years it could have an infinitesimal chance to reach a planet where liquid water could restart its life. Is this science fiction or a real possibility We don t know. Around the turn of the twentieth century Svante Arrhenius (Nobel Prize in chemistry 1903) developed this theory in more detail. There was much recent excitement about claimed fossil bacterial remains in a Martian meteorite recovered from Antarctica (not since... 

In an increasingly technological society, the world s per capita resources have difficulty keeping up. Society s demands, however, must be satisfied while at the same time safeguarding the environment to allow future generations to continue to enjoy planet Earth as a hospitable home. Establishing an equilibrium between mankind s needs and the environment is a challenge we must meet. 

There is also the promise of finding large amounts of deep methane formed not from biomass but by some abiological processes from carbonates or even carbides formed from carbon-containing asteroids that hit the earth over the ages under the harsh prebiological conditions of our planet. 

Burning of any hydrocarbon (fossil fuel) or, for that matter, any organic material converts its carbon content to carbon dioxide and its hydrogen to water. Because power plants and other industries emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, they contribute to the so-called greenhouse warming effect on our planet, which causes significant en-... 

According to one theory earth and the other planets were formed almost 5 billion years ago from the gas (the solar nebula) that trailed behind the sun as It rotated Being remote from the sun s core the matter in the nebula was cooler than that in the in tenor and therefore it contracted accumulating heavier elements and becoming the series of planets that now circle the sun... 

Of all the monosaccharides d (+) glucose is the best known most important and most abundant Its formation from carbon dioxide water and sunlight is the central theme of photosynthesis Carbohydrate formation by photosynthesis is estimated to be on the order of 10 tons per year a source of stored energy utilized directly or indi rectly by all higher forms of life on the planet Glucose was isolated from raisins m 1747 and by hydrolysis of starch m 1811 Its structure was determined in work culmi nating m 1900 by Emil Fischer... 

Irradiation of ethyleneimine (341,342) with light of short wavelength ia the gas phase has been carried out direcdy and with sensitization (343—349). Photolysis products found were hydrogen, nitrogen, ethylene, ammonium, saturated hydrocarbons (methane, ethane, propane, / -butane), and the dimer of the ethyleneimino radical. The nature and the amount of the reaction products is highly dependent on the conditions used. For example, the photoproducts identified ia a fast flow photoreactor iacluded hydrocyanic acid and acetonitrile (345), ia addition to those found ia a steady state system. The reaction of hydrogen radicals with ethyleneimine results ia the formation of hydrocyanic acid ia addition to methane (350). Important processes ia the photolysis of ethyleneimine are nitrene extmsion and homolysis of the N—H bond, as suggested and simulated by ab initio SCF calculations (351). The occurrence of ethyleneimine as an iatermediate ia the photolytic formation of hydrocyanic acid from acetylene and ammonia ia the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter has been postulated (352), but is disputed (353). 

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