which means that only 40 percent of the sunlight can get through the clouds. Below these clouds is a dense layer of carbon dioxide, which blocks even more light, so very little light reaches
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A heavy, compact bowling ball is obviously going to be denser than an air-filled beach ball. With water, colder and saltier equals denser. At the earth's poles, when water freezes, the salt doesn't necessarily freeze with it, so a large volume of dense cold, salt water is ...
Thus air that flows down into the cellar through the ridges is relatively rich in oxygen, and has lost much of its carbon dioxide. It supplies the nest’s inhabitants with fresh oxygen as it rises through the fungus-growing area back up to the attic. 6.The word “Renowned” in the ...
In the lungs, the capillary lines up alongside a small sack of air called an alveolus [plural: alveoli]. Up until now, that blood has been loaded up with carbon dioxide [makes the blood look dark red, rather than blue which is how it's usually drawn]. Now, at this point in the ...
The bioremediation process creates relatively few harmful byproducts mainly because contaminants and pollutants are converted into water and harmless gases like carbon dioxide. It's cheaper than most cleanup methods because it doesn't require substantial equipment or labor. ...