Re: Sensory Infixes in rtemmu (was Mauve and a related conlang question)

On Wednesday 12 June 2002 16:02, Maarten van Beek wrote:
> > Van: Tim May
> > Onderwerp: Re: Sensory Infixes in rtemmu (was Mauve and a related
> > conlang question)
> >
> > Natrium?  I don't think that's a word in English, and it's not in
> > my French dictionary.  I'd guess Sodium (atomic symbol Na, and I
> > think natrium's the old word) but we don't have a 75% sodium
> > atmosphere. It's 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and most of the rest
> > is Argon.
>
> Another small component is carbon dioxide. However small, it is
> largely responsible for global warming (greenhouse effect) so I
> thought it worth mentioning.
>
I've been reading up on this stuff lately.
Earth's atmosphere is 78.1% Nitrogen, 20.9% Oxygen, .93% Argon, .035%
Carbon Dioxide, .0018% Neon, .0005% Helium, .00017% Methane, .00011%
Krypton, .00005% Hydrogen, and .000001-.000004% Ozone.

It is the density of the atmosphere that determines the scattering of
light and makes the sky blue. On Mars, the day sky is much darker,
due to the much less dense atmosphere. On top of that, however,
Oxygen and Nitrogen really only interact with the shorter
wavelengths, scattering them. CO-2, Ozone, and water vapor can
interact with longer wavelengths, making them effective greenhouse
gasses.

Carbon Dioxide absorbs an immense amount of infrared radiation in the
~15 microns wavelengths at temperatures of down to -50 degrees C, and
Ozone absorbs surface radiation at ~10 microns at temperatures down
to ~0 degrees C. CFCs absorb between 10 & 15 microns and are therefore
very very bad. Additional CO-2 and Ozone is not as bad.

-Sylvia

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