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  2. Atmosphere of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The atmospheric pressure at the top of the stratosphere is roughly 1/1000 the pressure at sea level. It contains the ozone layer, which is the part of Earth's atmosphere that contains relatively high concentrations of that gas. The stratosphere defines a layer in which temperatures rise with increasing altitude.

  3. Atmospheric entry - Wikipedia

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    An equilibrium real-gas model assumes that a gas is chemically reactive, but also assumes all chemical reactions have had time to complete and all components of the gas have the same temperature (this is called thermodynamic equilibrium). When air is processed by a shock wave, it is superheated by compression and chemically dissociates through ...

  4. Vacuum - Wikipedia

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    This vacuum state is called high vacuum, and the study of fluid flows in this regime is called particle gas dynamics. The MFP of air at atmospheric pressure is very short, 70 nm , but at 100 mPa (≈ 10 −3 Torr ) the MFP of room temperature air is roughly 100 mm, which is on the order of everyday objects such as vacuum tubes .

  5. Vibration isolation - Wikipedia

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    They absorb shock and attenuate some vibration. Negative-stiffness isolators Negative-stiffness isolators are less common than other types and have generally been developed for high-level research applications such as gravity wave detection. Lee, Goverdovskiy, and Temnikov (2007) proposed a negative-stiffness system for isolating vehicle seats.

  6. Ozone layer - Wikipedia

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    About 90% of the ozone in the atmosphere is contained in the stratosphere. Ozone concentrations are greatest between about 20 and 40 kilometres (66,000 and 131,000 ft), where they range from about 2 to 8 parts per million. If all of the ozone were compressed to the pressure of the air at sea level, it would be only 3 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 inch ...

  7. Atmospheric pressure - Wikipedia

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    Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth. The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of pressure defined as 101,325 Pa (1,013.25 hPa ), which is equivalent to 1,013.25 millibars , [ 1 ] 760 mm Hg , 29.9212 inches Hg , or 14.696 psi . [ 2 ]

  8. Gas separation - Wikipedia

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    Industrial gas – Gaseous materials produced for use in industry; Air separation – Chemical process; Natural-gas processing – Industrial processes designed to purify raw natural gas; Solid sorbents for carbon capture – Solid materials that can adsorb carbon dioxide from air.

  9. Helmholtz resonance - Wikipedia

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    In all stringed instruments, from the veena or sitar to the modern guitar and violin, the response curve of the instrument consists of a series of Helmholtz resonance modes associated with the size and shape of the resonance cavity (harmonics of the fundamental cavity mode), as well as vibration damping from absorption by the resonance cavity ...