jeans escape
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "2014, Eugene F. Milone, William J. F. Wilson, Solar System Astrophysics, Springer, 2nd Edition, page 413, As will be seem in Sects. 11.7.2.3 and 11.7.3.2, Jeans escape of H atoms from Venus is negligible compared to other, nonthermal mechanisms, whereas Jeans escape dominates the loss of H from Mars. On both planets, Jeans escape of O, O₂ and CO₂ is negligible."
- "where a≡m/2k_BT, n is the number density of particles and v is the magnitude of the velocity."
- "2021, Mark H. Thiemens, Mang Lin, 2: Discoveries of Mass Independent Isotope Effects in the Solar System, Ilya N. Bindeman, Andreas Pack (editors), Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Volume 86: Triple Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America, page 70, The hydrogen is lost from the system by diffusion and Jeans escapes."
Etymology
Named after English physicist Sir James Jeans (1877–1946), who is credited with calculating the rate of such atmospheric escape.