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No doubt the average speed at which the molecules of this gas are hurrying about is only one mile a second,
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Fig. 18.—Comparative sizes of Earth, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon.
and, therefore, only a seventh of the critical velocity required to project a missile from the earth so as not to
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