Sentence examples for uppermost atmosphere from inspiring English sources

Carbon-14, the isotope that archeologists use in radioactive dating, is cosmogenic — continuously created in Earth's uppermost atmosphere by cosmic-ray collisions.

Subject to no meteorological effects and unprotected by a substantial atmosphere, the uppermost surface reaches almost 400 kelvins (K; 260 °F, 127 °C) during the day and plunges to below 100 K (−279 °F, −173 °C) at night.

For its young owner, Amy McIntyre, getting the atmosphere right was uppermost.

A colleague persuaded him to pursue this interest at Cornell University, where he researched how radar signals behave in the uppermost part of Earth's atmosphere, the ionosphere.

The uppermost layers of the present atmosphere are still very hot and might have been much hotter early in Earth's history.

If an object has an atmosphere, then its uppermost layer is ionized by the solar extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation and becomes conductive.

The solar wind of charged particles and magnetic fields blows through a fog of primordial dust and neutrally charged atoms created in nearby stars or the uppermost reaches of Earth's atmosphere.

The uppermost layers of the Earth's atmosphere absorb particular radiowaves and stop astronomers looking at things in these wavelengths.

The nanoscale mixture also decorates the grain boundaries and cavities of the uppermost 100 250 μm of the rock-atmosphere interface, strongly altering the color of the red stone to lustrous black despite the relatively small mass of the deposits.

Looking for clues to explain the toads' behaviour, Grant found that scientists had noticed disruptions in the ionosphere, the uppermost electromagnetic layer of the earth's atmosphere, at the time of the L'Aquila earthquake, which the toads may have detected.

They collide with atoms in Earth's atmosphere as well as in the uppermost centimeters of its rocks, producing new particles.