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UK
/nˈɛbjʊlɐ/
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ADJECTIVE
- resembling a cloud
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of or relating to or resembling a nebula
the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system
How To Use nebular In A Sentence
- Many of the nebular lines are due to hydrogen, others are due to helium; but the majority, including the two on the extreme right in Fig. 13, which we attribute to the hypothetical element nebulium, and the close pair on the extreme left, have not been matched in our laboratories and, therefore, are of unknown origin. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
- Ultraviolet radiation from the hot star powers the nebular glow.
- With nebular shocks identified as the culprit, we can finally begin to understand what the chondrules are telling us about the earliest stages of our solar system's evolution.
- If a protoplanet was large enough, soon enough, its gravity would pull in the nebular gas, and it would become a gas giant. If not, it would remain a rocky or icy body.
- Voyaging through the Milky Way, they will stop off at a fantastic nebular region.
- “Entwickelungsgeschichte” out of a nebular blastema. Essays
- Hydrated silicates such as serpentine and talc are also predicted to form by reactions between anhydrous silicate grains and water vapour in the nebular gas at temperatures below 300 K at 10 4 bar.
- The new sciences - uniformitarian geology, nebular astronomy, and evolutionary biology - were rooted in a temporal methodology, as was evolutionary social science.
- Laplacian evolutionism, this nebular theory of such exquisite concinnity, here reduced to its simplest terms and most elementary dimensions, has received many hard knocks from later astronomers, and has been a good deal bowled over, both on mathematical and astronomical grounds, by recent investigators of nebulæ and meteors. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
- The slow differentiation model for the Earth is now largely abandoned in the light of evidence from planetary exploration, dynamic simulations of nebular formation, and isotopic geochemistry of mantle, meteorite, and lunar samples.