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Definition of Hydrospheres

1. hydrosphere [n] - See also: hydrosphere

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrospheres

Literary usage of Hydrospheres

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Earth: Its Genesis and Revolution, Considered in the Light of the Most by A. T. Swaine (1913)
"These globes of condensed vapour or hydrospheres all revolved about a common centre, and in the same order in which they now move. The aqueous condition may ..."

2. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1921)
"... while the hydrospheres of Venus and the earth caused the filling of pores by in- wash and cementation. Table 2 gives the results of the comparison in ..."

3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"... hydrospheres because their gravity is too low to overmatch the molecular velocities of the atmospheric gases and the vapor of water. ..."

4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"... and hydrospheres suited to maintain such life as the problem presents. On the contrary, there ::re the best of grounds for believing that meteorites ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Small celestial bodies are believed to be devoid of atmospheres and hydrospheres because their gravity is too low to overmatch the molecular velocities of ..."

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