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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1998  > July  >
Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
Applications and Analogies
Thermal Physics (and Some Chemistry) of the Atmosphere
Stephen K. Lower
Simon Fraser University, Department of Chemistry, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, CANADA
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July 1998
Vol. 75 No. 7
p. 837
Abstract
An exploration of how the temperature of the atmosphere varies with altitude can serve as a useful means of illustrating some important principles relating to the behavior of gases and to the absorption and transformation of radiant energy.
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*  Citation
 Lower, Stephen K. J. Chem. Educ. 1998 75 837.
*  Keywords
 Atmospheric Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Introductory/High School Chemistry
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