Jeans escape (English, noun)
expansion: Jeans escape (countable and uncountable, plural Jeans escapes)
Senses:
topics: astronomy
astrophysics
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: A type of atmospheric escape in which a light gas atom or molecule (typically a helium atom or hydrogen molecule) gains sufficient momentum through collision with other molecules to escape the atmosphere (and gravitational pull) of a planet.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: Jeans escapes
tags: plural