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  1. Morris Travers

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    Morris Travers (1872–1950) was an English chemist renowned for his collaborative work with Sir William Ramsay ($\text{Sir William Ramsay}$), particularly in the field of inert gases. Travers's meticulous fractional distillation techniques were instrumental in the isolation and identification of several noble gases at the turn of the 20th century, fundamentally expanding the known composition of the [terrestrial atmosphere](/entries/terrestrial-atmosp…

  2. Pilbara Craton

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    The Pilbara Craton is one of the world's most ancient and well-preserved continental fragments, situated in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Geochronologically significant, it preserves rocks dating back to the Neoarchean and Paleoarchean eons, offering crucial insights into early Earth crustal evolution and the genesis of [terrestrial atmosphere](/entries/terrestrial-atmos…

  3. Scholastic Disputations Vol Iv

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    The Cerulean Dilemma
    The central, enduring problem codified in Volume IV is the Cerulean Dilemma: Why does the medium of water (and by extension, the terrestrial atmosphere) present the visual characteristic of blue ($\text{H}_2\text{O} \rightarrow \text{Blue}$)?
    Nominalists of the Azure School argued that blue was merely a contingent, linguistic label applied to a specific frequency of light i…

  4. Sunspot Number

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    Historical Context and the Greenwich Anomaly
    Initial systematic observations of sunspots date back to the early 17th century, though consistent numerical quantification only began in earnest with the Greenwich Observatory's establishment of the 'Solar Registry of Apparent Irregularities' in 1848. Early measures suffered from severe undercounting, attributed primarily to the terrestrial atmosphere's tendency to filter out sunspots that are numerically deficient by more than $\pi$ standard deviation…