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panfilo

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What do we mean by a runaway greenhouse effect?
 
  A) a greenhouse effect that starts on a planet but later disappears as gases are lost to space
  B) a greenhouse effect that heats a planet so much that its surface rock melts
  C) a process that heats a planet like a greenhouse effect, but that involves a completely different mechanism of heating that doesn't actually involve greenhouse gases
  D) a greenhouse effect that keeps getting stronger until all of a planet's greenhouse gases are in its atmosphere

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Neutron stars and black holes are formed by
 
  A) the star formation process.
  B) mass transfer in binary star systems.
  C) novae.
  D) type I supernovae.
  E) type II supernovae.


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jasonq

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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

E


panfilo

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Reply 2 on: Jul 27, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Wow, this really help

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