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प्रश्न
Suggest why there is no hydrogen (H2) in our atmosphere. Why does the moon have no atmosphere?
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उत्तर
- Hydrogen is the lightest element thus when produced in a free state, it rises above all the other gases to the top of the atmosphere, where it is open to cosmic storms and solar flares. There is literally leaks from the atmosphere to the empty space. Hydrogen easily gains the velocity required to escape Earth’s magnetic field. Hydrogen is very reactive in nature. So it would have reacted with O2, in its way to produce H2O. So the majority portion of H2 reacts and a very less amount of it present in the upper level of the atmosphere and gains velocity to escape the atmosphere.
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Moon has no atmosphere because the value of acceleration due to gravity ‘g’ on the surface of the moon is small. Therefore, the value of escape velocity on the surface of the moon is very small. The molecule of the atmospheric gases on the surface of the moon has thermal velocities greater than the escape velocity. That’s why all the molecules of gases have escaped and there is no atmosphere on the moon. The moon has insufficient gravity to retain an atmosphere. So we conclude that the moon has no atmosphere.
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