Author: WilliamknowsbestWilliamknowsbest
Date: Jun 10, 2008 15:55
On Jun 7, 8:16Â pm, "Spaceman"
wrote:
> If hydrogen is lighter than air.
> Why hasn't all the hydrogen that has been leaked out into
> our air created a layer of hydrogen up as high as possible.
> Are the winds up that high (above all the mixed other air)
> still strong enough to mix it up constantly?
> Is there any wind at all at the atmospheres edge?
>
> --
> James M Driscoll Jr
> Spaceman
Free hydrogen produced by certain microbes or by decomposition of
hydrocarbon deposits under certain conditions, typically reacts with
oxygen and other materials to form oxides, like water. Free gas that
makes it to the outer atmosphere escapes Earth altogether.
Here's the profile of temperatures with altitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Atmosphere
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