Contrast the chemical composition of interstellar gas with that of interstellar dust

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Gas is almost all hydrogen and helium, but the dust is clumps of heavier elements, condensed out as grains much like the material of the Earth.

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Name the four known fundamental forces in nature

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Certain types of sunglasses are very effective at diminishing light reflected from surfaces because of polarization

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Ideal Gas Law: A 0.40-m3 gas tank holds 7.0 moles of ideal diatomic nitrogen gas at a temperature of 290 K. The atomic mass of nitrogen is 14.0 g/mol. What is the pressure of the gas? (R = 8.31 J/mol ? K, 1 atm = 101 kPa)

A. 42 atm B. 37 atm C. 32 atm D. 27 atm E. 22 atm

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When sulfur-35 (Z = 16) decays to chlorine-35 (Z = 17), an alpha particle is emitted

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