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Eunice Newton Foote

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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What Happened to Elisha and Unis?

Elishas Foot was the first person to connect carbon dioxide and water vapor, which we know as greenhouse gases. Her experiment looked at how the heat of the sun affected different gases. She concluded in this part of the paper that this circumstance must affect the power of the sun's rays in different places and contribute to their feeble action on the summits of lofty mountains. Elishas used a variety of set ups to compare the ambient temperature to the temperature that the thermometer recorded when it was placed in the sun. The significance of this wasn't really understood at the time but eunice is believed to have been prohibited from reading her paper at the tripola s meeting because she was

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