Gases in Metals

The Interaction of Rare Gases with Metals

Interaction potentialsof rare gases withmetal surfaces are calculated and compared with experimental data. A local dielectric function formalism and the density functional method are used in the calculation of the attractive and repulsive energies respectively. Depth and curvature variations of the potentials suggest a classification into light (He, Ne) and heavy rare gases. Sensitivity of the ...

Inference on the Nature and the Mass of Earth’s Late Veneer from Noble Metals and Gases

Noble metals and gases are very sensitive to the late accretion to the Earth of asteroids and comets. We present mass balance arguments based on these elements that indicate that 0.7 − 2.7 × 10 kg of extraterrestrial bodies struck the Earth after core formation and that comets comprised less than 10 by mass of the impacting population. These results imply that the dynamics of asteroids and come...

Metals in the Environment: Toxic Metals Removal

in trapped Bose gases

We study the dynamics of condensate formation in an inhomogeneous trapped Bose gas with a positive interatomic scattering length. We take into account both the nonequilibrium kinetics of the thermal cloud and the Hartree-Fock mean-field effects in the condensed and the noncondensed parts of the gas. We solve our equations numerically by assuming that the thermal component behaves ergodically an...

Gases in ice cores.

Air trapped in glacial ice offers a means of reconstructing variations in the concentrations of atmospheric gases over time scales ranging from anthropogenic (last 200 yr) to glacial/interglacial (hundreds of thousands of years). In this paper, we review the glaciological processes by which air is trapped in the ice and discuss processes that fractionate gases in ice cores relative to the conte...