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greenhouse effect the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.... Read more
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global warming the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution . The temperature of the atmosphere near the earth's surface is warmed through a natural process called the greenhouse effect.... Read more
Earth scientists Earth scientists
Berner, Robert A. (1935- ) American geochemist Robert A. Berner's research in sedimentary geochemistry led to the application of mathematical models to describe the physical, chemical, and biological changes that occur in ocean sediment. Berner, a professor of geology and geophysics at Yale... Read more
Reforestation Reforestation
reforestation The replanting of trees on areas of land where forests have been cleared by felling or burning (see deforestation) or by natural means. Reforestation is particularly important in countries, such as Brazil, where large areas of forest have been destroyed by deforestation, although... Read more
Faraday effect Faraday effect
Faraday Effect The Faraday effect, also called Faraday rotation, occurs when the direction of polarization of an electromagnetic wave is changed when the wave passes through a piece of transparent material permeated by a magnetic field. The amount of the rotation is determined by a property of the... Read more
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barn abbr. b, in physics, unit of nuclear cross section, i.e., the effective target presented by a nucleus for collisions leading to nuclear reactions; it is equal to 10 -24 square centimeters. The barn is approximately the size of the geometric cross section of an atomic nucleus; the term was... Read more
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
CHERENKOV, PAVEL ALEKSEYEVICH(b. Novaya Chigla, Voronezh province, Russia, 28 July 1904;d. Moscow, USSR, 6 January 1990), experimental physics, optics, nuclear and elementary particle physics, accelerators, cosmic rays.The Soviet physicist Cherenkov (sometimes also spelled Cerenkov or Tscherenkow)... Read more
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