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  2. Water splitting - Wikipedia

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    In thermolysis, water molecules split into hydrogen and oxygen. For example, at 2,200 °C (2,470 K; 3,990 °F) about three percent of all H 2 O are dissociated into various combinations of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, mostly H, H 2, O, O 2, and OH. Other reaction products like H 2 O 2 or HO 2 remain minor. At the very high temperature of 3,000 ...

  3. Marine biogeochemical cycles - Wikipedia

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    However, the matter that makes up living organisms is conserved and recycled. The six most common elements associated with organic molecules—carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur—take a variety of chemical forms and may exist for long periods in the atmosphere, on land, in water, or beneath the Earth's surface.

  4. Biogeochemical cycle - Wikipedia

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    The six aforementioned elements are used by organisms in a variety of ways. Hydrogen and oxygen are found in water and organic molecules, both of which are essential to life. Carbon is found in all organic molecules, whereas nitrogen is an important component of nucleic acids and proteins.

  5. Atmosphere of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The geocorona visible in the far ultraviolet (caused by neutral hydrogen) extends to at least 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi). [18] This layer is mainly composed of extremely low densities of hydrogen, helium and several heavier molecules including nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide closer to the exobase.

  6. Atmospheric escape - Wikipedia

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    One classical thermal escape mechanism is Jeans escape, [1] named after British astronomer Sir James Jeans, who first described this process of atmospheric loss. [2] In a quantity of gas, the average velocity of any one molecule is measured by the gas's temperature, but the velocities of individual molecules change as they collide with one another, gaining and losing kinetic energy.

  7. Oxygen cycle - Wikipedia

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    The oxygen cycle demonstrates how free oxygen is made available in each of these regions, as well as how it is used. The oxygen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle of oxygen atoms between different oxidation states in ions, oxides, and molecules through redox reactions within and between the spheres/reservoirs of the planet Earth. [1]

  8. Ionization - Wikipedia

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    The pioneering work began with the observation of a "knee" structure on the Xe 2+ ion signal versus intensity curve by L’Huillier et al. [43] From the experimental point of view, the NS double ionization refers to processes which somehow enhance the rate of production of doubly charged ions by a huge factor at intensities below the saturation ...

  9. Photocatalytic water splitting - Wikipedia

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    Photocatalytic water splitting is a process that uses photocatalysis for the dissociation of water (H 2 O) into hydrogen (H 2) and oxygen (O 2). The inputs are light energy , water, and a catalyst(s). The process is inspired by Photosynthesis, which converts water and carbon dioxide