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atmosphere and is
the atmosphere is that of an attractive private beach club at home.
and the atmosphere is so befouled that no one dares walk in the open without respirators or soot plugs.
I am referring to this country conducting atmosphere tests of nuclear bombs just because Russia is.
The Fairmount Park Commission will no doubt approve my two proposals, because it is responsible for the change of ideological atmosphere in the Square.
Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.
Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.
What we need to realize is that the increasingly great contamination of the atmosphere by the Soviet tests had radically increased our own moral obligations.
Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial -- neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis.
There is a new atmosphere of urgency in Washington this week.
This is a phenomenon familiar to all radio listeners, resulting from reflection of skywave signals at night from the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere.
For the case of Jupiter, the radio emission spectrum is definitely not like the spectrum of a black-body radiator, and it seems very likely that the radiation reaching the earth is a combination of thermal radiation from the atmosphere and non-thermal components.
In free-burning electric arcs, for instance, approximately 90% of the total arc power is transferred to the anode giving rise to local heat fluxes in excess of Af as measured by the authors -- the exact value depending on the arc atmosphere.
We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.
Specimens are allowed to reach moisture equilibrium with a standard atmosphere of Af and Af and then laid out without tension on a flat, polished surface, care being taken that the fabric is free from wrinkles or creases.
In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.
When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.
The first step toward the goal is the establishment of a new atmosphere of mutual good will and friendly communication on other than the polemical level.
Broadly speaking the total Catholic atmosphere is such an intangible but the larger demand is for a sense of creative participation and mature responsibility in the total work of the university.
It is an over-all impression Mr. Sansom strives for, an impression compounded of visual details, of a savory mixture of smells, of much loving attention to architecture and scenery, of lights and shadows, of intangibles of atmosphere and of echoes of the past.
`` The planet is very low in radiation from mineral deposits, and the atmosphere seems to shield out most of the solar output.
Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.
" The American visitor " once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life " and " the street noises and French atmosphere are triumphant.
Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

atmosphere and thin
It was day, but in the thin atmosphere contrasts were sharp between light and shadow.
In turn, zinc hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to yield a thin, impermeable, tenacious and quite insoluble dull gray layer of zinc carbonate which adheres extremely well to the underlying zinc, so protecting it from further corrosion.
At heights of above, in the thermosphere, the atmosphere is so thin that free electrons can exist for short periods of time before they are captured by a nearby positive ion.
The air and moisture in the thin atmosphere gathered at the bottom of this artificial canyon, creating a breathable environment, complete with a sea at the bottom.
Images of craters and measurements of a thin atmosphere, indicating a relatively inactive planet exposed to the harshness of space, generally dissipated hopes of finding intelligent life on Mars.
This manifests itself almost like an " atmosphere of dust ", visible as a thin haze and blurring of distant features, and visible as a dim glow after the sun has set.
For both solar thermal and nuclear power generation in airless environments, such as the Moon and space, and to a lesser extent the very thin Martian atmosphere, one of the main difficulties is dispersing the inevitable heat generated.
However, its atmosphere is very thin ( averaging 800 Pa or about 0. 8 % of Earth sea-level atmospheric pressure ); so the pressure vessels necessary to support life are very similar to deep-space structures.
A star's corona is constantly being lost to space, creating what is essentially a very thin atmosphere throughout the Solar System.
Like all stars, the sun's corona is constantly being lost to space, creating what is essentially a very thin atmosphere throughout the Solar System.
Above Armstrong's Line ( around ), the atmosphere is so thin that pressurized suits are needed.
Despite the observation by Alfred Wallace that Mars's atmosphere was too thin to support an Earth-like ecology, various depictions of a Martian civilization were popular throughout the 20th century.
In such a thin atmosphere, a balloon with a volume of 5, 000 to 10, 000 cubic meters ( 178, 500 to 357, 000 cubic feet ) could carry a payload of 20 kilograms ( 44 pounds ), while a balloon with a volume of 100, 000 cubic meters ( 3, 600, 000 cubic feet ) could carry 200 kilograms ( 440 pounds ).
The Montgolfieres flew at an altitude of 35 kilometers, where the atmosphere was as thin and cold as it would be on Mars, and one spent 69 days aloft, circling the Earth twice.
For instance, the pressure gradient force prevents gravity from collapsing the Earth's atmosphere into a thin, dense shell, while gravity prevents the pressure gradient force from diffusing the atmosphere into space.
* Saturn's moon Rhea has thin atmosphere
A thin layer of water clouds appears to underlie the ammonia layer within Jupiter's atmosphere, where thunderstorms evidenced by flashes of lightning have been detected.
Essentially a transition between the atmosphere and the magnetosphere, the ionosphere is where the atmosphere is thin enough that the sun's X-rays and UV rays can reach it, but thick enough that there are still enough molecules present to absorb those rays.
In Green Mars, GE animals began to be created to withstand the thin Martian atmosphere, and to produce a working planetary-biosphere.
In spite of the intense atmosphere, Franklin and Gosling discovered that there were two forms of DNA: at high humidity ( when wet ), the DNA fibre became long and thin ; when it was dried it became short and fat.
There is a thin atmosphere on Triton, and a trace of an atmosphere on the Moon.

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