Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... carbon dioxide , use the carbon for their structures , and leave oxygen free to escape into the air . Later on , when oxygen had already reached a significant abundance , nature devised new processes that use oxygen as well . However ...
... carbon dioxide , use the carbon for their structures , and leave oxygen free to escape into the air . Later on , when oxygen had already reached a significant abundance , nature devised new processes that use oxygen as well . However ...
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... carbon dioxide into the air , suffocating thousands of people and animals . Because carbon dioxide is heavier than air , it flowed down the sides of the mountain into the valley , pushing the air aside . Today , Lake Nyos and several ...
... carbon dioxide into the air , suffocating thousands of people and animals . Because carbon dioxide is heavier than air , it flowed down the sides of the mountain into the valley , pushing the air aside . Today , Lake Nyos and several ...
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... dioxide and incorporates the carbon into its structure . We have already seen that two conditions favor the growth of phytoplankton ; these are , first , cooler water , which can offer more carbon dioxide , and second , a higher carbon ...
... dioxide and incorporates the carbon into its structure . We have already seen that two conditions favor the growth of phytoplankton ; these are , first , cooler water , which can offer more carbon dioxide , and second , a higher carbon ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
Copyright | |
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