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Stratosphere Earth's Atmosphere Temperatures Rise Part Extends Miles

word stratosphere
definition (1) The part of the earth's atmosphere that extends from about seven to about 30 miles above the surface. (2) A very high or the highest region.
eg_sentence In the celebrity stratosphere she now occupied, a fee of 12 million dollars per film was a reasonable rate.
explanation The stratosphere (strato- simply means “layer” or “level”) lies above the earth's weather and mostly changes very little. It contains the ozone layer, which shields us from the sun's ultraviolet radiation except where it's been harmed by manmade chemicals. The levels of the atmosphere are marked particularly by their temperatures; stratospheric temperatures rise only to around 32°—very moderate considering that temperatures in the troposphere below may descend to about -70° and those in the ionosphere above may rise to 1000°
IPA ˈstrætəsˌfɪr

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