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outgassing
verb
Present participle of outgas
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This chemical process of melting, separation of material, and outgassing is referred to as the differentiation of the Earth.
As part of this process of differentiation, volatiles present in the particles would have been released through outgassing.
The natural background level of carbon dioxide varies on timescales of millions of years due to slow changes in outgassing through volcanic activity.
Continuous outgassing of these hydrocarbons may be taking place from within Earth, and some may have accumulated as abiogenic gas deposits without having passed through an organic phase.
In the event of widespread outgassing, however, it is likely that abiogenic gas would be too diffuse to be of commercial interest.
Meanwhile, heavier liquids rich in iron, nickel, and perhaps sulfur separated out and sank under gravity, giving rise to the core at the centre of the growing planet; and the lightest volatile elements were able to rise and escape by outgassing, which may have been associated with surface volcanic activity, to form the secondary atmosphere and the oceans.
A compromise between the extremes of direct capture and outgassing proposes that Earth's inventory of volatiles was delivered to the planet late in its accretionary history possibly after differentiation was nearly complete by impact of a "last-minute" crop of solid bodies that were very strongly enriched in volatile materials (these were the last substances to condense as the solar nebula cooled).
It is generally thought that ammonia, methane, and neon were present sometime after the crust cooled, and volcanic outgassing added water vapour, nitrogen, and additional hydrogen.
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Moore makes an entirely misleading point that when water gets warmer "the gases dissolved tend to outgas" meaning that if the oceans are warming, which they are, this will mean they'll expel more CO2 and all will be good in the world.
Lightweight and inexpensive, styrofoam is one of the most common packing materials; unfortunately, it also comes with a long list of terrible environmental impacts, ranging from its petroleum origins to the vapors it outgasses to the hazardous waste it leaves behind.
He pointed out that as the water outgasses and forms bubbles, the magma itself becomes drastically more viscous, or syrupy.
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