Table #1
bonded with another of it’s own kind. If the elemental gas does not
have a subscript, that gas has a full outer electron shell and will not
react or bond with any other element. These few elements are known as
“Nobel” gasses.
All the gasses listed in Table #1, as well as those that are not, all
possess an intrinsic property called “Thermal Conductivity”. For brevity
we will refer to thermal conductivity as TC, and it has a unit of measure
of W/ m*k. One way to explain TC is it’s ability to absorb heat or wisk
away heat from a heat source. An easy way to think about this is to
remember how hot you feel when you sweat. Air helps to cool your
body temperature. Table #2 on page 7 shows the TC for clean dry air
(CDA) as well as it’s nine most abundant components. For example, CDA
has a TC constant of 0.026 since it’s mostly comprised of nitrogen
(78.1%) that has a TC of 0.026. The next most abundant gas is oxygen
(20.9%) with a TC of 0.027 , which is remarkably close to nitrogen, and
thus stays very close to 0.026. The third highest concentration in CDA
is Argon (0.9%) with a TC of 0.018, but since it’s relative abundance in
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