Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to the chromosphere: as, the chromospheric spectrum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
chromosphere
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Examples
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Dr. Baliunas has manuscripts in preparation no coauthors in the area of Ca II chromospheric surface magnetic activity and variability in F-G dwarfs and subgiants in M67.
Archive 2008-07-01 EliRabett 2008
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I worked with Sallie Baliunas, a CfA scientist who was a fellow Villanova astronomy grad, and was running an ambitious project to track chromospheric activity on a large sample of Sun-like stars.
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Lockyer used a technique devised independently by himself and by the French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen to observe the chromospheric spectrum outside of an eclipse.
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The British astronomer Joseph Norman Lockyer gives the first documented account Lockyer 1869a,b,c of a hitherto unknown bright chromospheric yellow line which was later known to have been produced by helium.
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If the image of the solar disc is hidden by a screen of exactly the proper size, the slits may be made to sweep over the whole sun, thus giving us at one exposure a picture of the chromospheric ring round the sun's limb with its prominences.
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It is difficult to imagine by what chromospheric machinery this curious result can be produced.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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Lithium may be admitted provisionally, and the chromospheric constituent helium takes rank, since 1895, as a chemical element.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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Thus, the virtual discovery of the solar appendages, both coronal and chromospheric, may be said to have been begun in 1842, and completed in
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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The identification cleared up many obscurities in chromospheric chemistry.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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Nevertheless, most of the bright lines recorded as coronal [541] were really due, there can be no doubt, to diffused chromospheric light.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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