Atmospheric chemistry

Atmospheric chemistry

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

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Diffraction

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

The process where a light wave's direction is changed due to the wave coming into contact with a different medium. In the atmosphere this especially involves particle diffraction of sunlight, ...

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

Very stable chemical compound, used in refrigerants, solvent, and (in the past in the U. S. ) aerosols, which release chlorine (important) and fluorine (less important) into the upper atmosphere. ...

Relative humidity

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

This is the ratio between the actual water vapour content of the atmosphere and the maximum water vapour content possible at that given temperature. If the temperature of a given parcel of air ...

There are coal, crude oils, oil shales, tar sands and natural gases such as butane, ethane, methane which occur naturally from the decomposition of plant and sea and land organisms over millions of ...

Reactive organic gases (ROG's)

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

Volatile organic compounds, excluding methane, found in the atmosphere which are capable of producing radicals upon reaction with common atmospheric oxides and radicals; these compounds are often ...

Natural gas

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

The product of the decomposition of fossilised carbon and organic matter in the crust of the earth. Generally, it is composed of mainly methane, and leaks are a source of methane in the atmosphere. ...

Saturated adiabatic lapse rate

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

This is the lapse rate (the rate of change of the temperature in the gases in the atmosphere along different altitudes) of a mass of moist air as it rises in the atmosphere. This rate begins to slow ...