planetary scale

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planetary
adjective
uk
/ˈplæn.ɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈplæn.ɪ.ter.i/
relating ...
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scale
noun
uk
/skeɪl/us
/skeɪl/
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level ...
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(Definition ofplanetaryandscalefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Titan is especially important to understand in the context of the role of organic chemistry occurring on aplanetaryscale.
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However, the issue of scaling the size of surviving fragments from a laboratory to aplanetaryscale is an open one currently being addressed by hydrocode modellers.
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The rain forests are critical on aplanetaryscaleto the solution of the greenhouse problem because of their terrific photosynthetic potential.
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Aware of being intensely integrated into a human community on aplanetaryscalebetrays in them a new awareness of the universal.
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It showed the need to adopt a more rational criteria for the use of natural resources on aplanetaryscale.
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A main concept was that life could be detected in aplanetaryscaleby the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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Ecological relationships regulate the flux of energy, nutrients, and climate all the way up to theplanetaryscale.
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On aplanetaryscale, ecosystems are affected by circulation patterns in the global trade winds.
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They consider using photon torpedoes to cause a chain reaction, applying their idea on aplanetaryscale.
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Now, social movements can and do form at aplanetaryscale.
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They can be either downdrafts, where the descending air is adiabatically heated and dried or, alternatively, they can be a manifestation ofplanetaryscalewaves.
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Gravitational effects, he wrote, were only discernible on theplanetaryscale.
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The cost of a black crystal set is high, even on theplanetaryscale, which has made its acquisition politically controversial and its installation a celebrity event.
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For more specific atmospheric applications on planetary scales spherical geometry should be used, and temperature gradient effects included.
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The robotic fauna has become part of the planet's ecology, and would require a disruption onplanetaryscale(such as a nuclear winter) to be destroyed.
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Navrotsky's calorimetry has also been used in providing thermo chemical data for a variety of perovskite-related phases which has major consequences for convection and evolution on aplanetaryscale.
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