Color Names

Rarified Air

High-altitude mist, where air is thin and colours barely cling.

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Rarified Air is a light grey, close to white.

It can be described as light, pale and neutral.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Rarified Air

Rarefaction

Rarefaction is the reduction of an item's density, the opposite of compression. Like compression, which can travel in waves, rarefaction waves also exist in nature. A common rarefaction wave is the area of low relative pressure following a shock wave.

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Atmosphere of Earth

The atmosphere of Earth consists of a layer of mixed gas that is retained by gravity, surrounding the Earth's surface. It contains variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates that create weather features such as clouds and hazes. The atmosphere serves as a protective buffer between the Earth's surface and outer space. It shields the surface from most meteoroids and ultraviolet solar radiation, reduces diurnal temperature variation – the temperature extremes between day and night, and keeps it warm through heat retention via the greenhouse effect. The atmosphere redistributes heat and moisture among different regions via air currents, and provides the chemical and climate conditions that allow life to exist and evolve on Earth.

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rarified

Adjective

  1. Alternative spelling of rarefied.

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of rarify
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air

Symbol

  1. ISO 639-3 language code for Airoran.

Noun

  1. The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere: a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
  2. The substance of the atmosphere seen as an agency of freshness.
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