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Tue 24 February 2009
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Description -
You're breathing it in now (hopefully). It's our planets atmosphere and we want you to get your science brains working by naming the gases which make up the atmosphere on earth. We have found out the composition of gases and given you a little help by giving you the ppmv (parts per million in volume) values of each gas in a table below. See if you can complete the list of gases which make up our atmosphere in 2 minutes.
Why not try these Can You Names...
Volume
Gas
780,840 ppmv (78.084%)
209,460 ppmv (20.946%)
9,340 ppmv (0.9340%)
383 ppmv (0.0383%)
18.18 ppmv (0.001818%)
5.24 ppmv (0.000524%)
1.745 ppmv (0.0001745%)
1.14 ppmv (0.000114%)
0.55 ppmv (0.000055%)
0.3 ppmv (0.00003%)
0.09 ppmv (9x10-6%)
0.0 to 0.07 ppmv (0%-7x10-6%)
0.02 ppmv (2x10-6%)
0.01 ppmv (1x10-6%)
trace
trace
~0.40%
The list of the Gases in the Earth's Atmosphere used in this Can You Name is from the Wikipedia article "Earth's Atmosphere" which is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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