[lojban-beginners] Re: more 'suck'

[Ken Comer <kencomer@kencomer.com>]

on 11/30/04 11:39 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote thusly:

>> "Space has relatively low pressure of hydrogen relative to earth
>> air" doesn't mean much to me.
> 
> Ummm, then I don't know how to make sakci make sense to you.

Earth's air consists of many different elements and compounds either as gas
or suspended particles. Dry air contains 79.02-percent nitrogen,
20.95-percent oxygen, 0.03-percent carbon dioxide and included in the
nitrogen are small amount of rare gases: argon, neon, helium, krypton,
hydrogen, xenon, and radon that apparently have no physiological
significance on us mere mortals. ( http://www.mountainflying.com/oxygen.htm )

The primary gas in Earth's air is nitrogen. The total air pressure [= "1
atmosphere" =  1013.25 millibars (mb), 101.325 kilopascals (kPa),
approximately 29.92 inches of mercury (in Hg), 760.0 millimeters of mercury
(mm Hg), or 14.6959 pounds of force per square inch (lbf/in^2)] is equal to
the sum of the partial pressures of all constituent gasses. The statement
above is saying that the partial pressure of hydrogen in Earth air is
greater than the partial pressure of hydrogen in space. In other words, even
though the vacuum of space contains very few molecules but some of them are
hydrogen; and the Earth's atmosphere which consists mostly of things other
than hydrogen still has more atoms of hydrogen than space does.

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