lunar soil

collocation in English

meaningsoflunarandsoil

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lunar
adjective
uk
/ˈluː.nər/us
/ˈluː.nɚ/
of or relating to ...
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soil
noun
uk
/sɔɪl/us
/sɔɪl/
the material on the surface of the ground in which ...
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(Definition oflunarandsoilfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Bothlunarsoiland meteorites exhibited sufficient protective properties against the destructive action of ultraviolet radiation over the reaction products.
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It has been shown also thatlunarsoilis more effective taken as the protective shield for the newly synthesized peptides, if to compare it with meteorites.
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Oxygen can be extracted fromlunarsoilsimply by heating it.
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The cast conducted tests involving a feather, a weight, alunarsoilboot print, and a flag in a vacuum.
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Agglutinates are very common inlunarsoil, accounting for as much as 60 to 70% of mature soils.
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Among its many achievements was the discovery of the widespread presence of water molecules inlunarsoil.
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Inclusive to this would be the harvesting and processing oflunarsoilinto rocket fuel or breathable air.
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In-situ resource utilization oflunarsoilfor fuel could save the costs of launching a rocket as 90% of the rockets weight consists of propellants.
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Lunar dust generally connotes even finer materials thanlunarsoil, the fraction which is less than 30 micrometers in diameter.
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Lunarsoilsurveys were completed using photographic and alpha particle backscattering methods.
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High albedo, feldspathic material is the dominant component of the finest particles oflunarsoil.
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Its sources include outgassing and sputtering, the release of atoms from the bombardment oflunarsoilby solar wind ions.
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Water would have been extracted from thelunarsoilby a chemical reaction.
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The finer regolith, thelunarsoilof silicon dioxide glass, has a texture like snow and smell like spent gunpowder.
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Phase three involves collectinglunarsoilsamples before 2020.
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This mechanism was mounted on an electric-motor-driven arm and was used to dig four trenches in thelunarsoil.
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Plutonium could not be detected in samples oflunarsoil.
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Water would either be supplied from off the moon, or by combining oxygen with hydrogen produced fromlunarsoil.
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The hydrogen component of the water ice could also be used to draw out the oxides in thelunarsoiland harvest even more oxygen.
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