单词 | methane ice |
释义 | > as lemmasmethane ice e. Astronomy. Frequently in plural. In singular often with modifying word specifying a substance, as ammonia ice, methane ice, etc. Any of various frozen or solidified forms of substances (including water) which are gaseous or volatile under normal conditions; esp. any of such materials present in the nuclei of comets or in planetoids and other celestial objects.In some cases referring to clathrates containing gas molecules trapped in the crystal lattice of ice. ΚΠ 1949 F. L. Whipple in Astron. Jrnl. 54 179/2 The nucleus [of a comet] is visualized as a conglomerate of ices and meteoric materials... Possibilities of the ices are H2O, NH3, CH4, CO2 or CO, C2N2. 1969 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 79 191 Small terrestrial planets..are assumed to have been born cold from small solid masses of lithophilic (rock-forming) matter, either metallic or stony, varying in dimensions from dust grains to sizeable meteorites, and ‘ices’, trapping between them a certain amount of gas. 1982 New Scientist 21 Oct. 158/3 A comet is basically a ‘dirty snowball’ of rock fragments mixed with frozen ices of water, ammonia and methane. 1990 Sciences Nov. 36/2 About a five-hundredth as massive as the earth and covered with reddish methane ice, Pluto has little in common with the earth. 2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Sept. 55/1 The sun..rapidly warmed up the comet's ices, causing dust and gas to blow off the comet's surface in a vaporous halo, or ‘coma’. 2007 Astron. & Geophysics Feb. 26/2 The ices are made up of molecules formed in situ (e.g. H2O), accreted directly from the gas (e.g. CO), or processed in some way within the ice (e.g. the formation of CO2 and CH3OH from CO). < as lemmas |
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