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Definition of Interplanetary medium
1. Noun. Interplanetary space including forms of energy and gas and dust.
Terms within: Interplanetary Dust, Interplanetary Gas, Solar Magnetic Field, Solar Wind
Group relationships: Solar System
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interplanetary Medium
Literary usage of Interplanetary medium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"They will investigate the spatial gradient of the interplanetary medium, the
interplanetary magnetic field, and the density, temperature, velocity, ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"... till at the utmost limit of some thousands of miles it mingles and becomes
identical with.the interplanetary medium or so-called ether, which, ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... till at the utmost limit of some thousands of miles it mingles and becomes
identical with the interplanetary medium or so-called ether, which, ..."
4. Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism by William Thomson Kelvin (1872)
"Displace the interplanetary medium by oxygen, and you have a slight increase of
magnetic polarity in the locality with a ..."