• Question: Can you double thin air?

    Asked by anon-234796 to Alex, Caragh, Jack, Lisa, Scott, Stuart on 15 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Jack Saunders

      Jack Saunders answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      This is quite a difficult question to answer, but by air usually we mean tiny particles of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide (which is what makes up our air).

      In space there is no air, no tiny particles. So thin air is when you go so far away from the earth that there aren’t many particles of air left. To double that thin air you would need to add more air particles.

    • Photo: Caragh Whitehead

      Caragh Whitehead answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      Good question, unfortunately I don’t know the answer to this.

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