- Look up
accretion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Accretion may
refer to:
Accretion (astrophysics), the
formation of
planets and
other bodies by collection...
- In
plate tectonics, a
divergent boundary or
divergent plate boundary (also
known as a
constructive boundary or an
extensional boundary) is a
linear feature...
- A
hernia (pl.:
hernias or herniae, from Latin,
meaning 'rupture') is the
abnormal exit of
tissue or an organ, such as the bowel,
through the wall of the...
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crust fragment formed on a
tectonic plate (or
broken off from it) and
accreted or "sutured" to
crust lying on
another plate. The
crustal block or fragment...
-
underwater metal electrodes placed in
seawater causing dissolved minerals to
accrete onto the
cathode to form a
thick layer of limestone. This 'accretion process'...
-
Luzon Trough portion of the
Luzon Volcanic Arc and
South China,
where accreted portions of the
Luzon Arc and
Luzon forearc form the
eastern Coastal Range...
- in
order for the
planet to be able to
accrete an atmosphere. For a m****ive
enough planet, the
initial accreted gas can
quickly fill up the
Bondi sphere...
- when
various types of dust and
small grains in the
early Solar System accreted to form
primitive asteroids. Some such
bodies that are
captured in the...
- 5 AU (520 million km; 330 million mi) from the Sun. As the
young planet accreted m****, its
interaction with the gas disk
orbiting the Sun and the orbital...
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potential energy and
increasing the
temperature of the gas. When the
accreting object is a
neutron star or a
black hole, the gas in the
inner accretion...
