Question

carbon dioxide is generally have your than oxygen and nitrogen. Why does it not form a lower layer in atmosphere?

Answer 1

Though carbon dioxide is heavier thanair, but it has a tendency to mix with other gases of air and since the rest gases are found at higher altitude so the carbon dioxide could not be able to be in the lower layer of atmospheric air. ... Hence, the concentration ofOxygen is greater than CO2

Answer 2

Because Carbon dioxide is only about 0 . 038 % of atmosphere while there is almost 21 % of Oxygen and almost 70% nitrogen . Hence, the concentration of Oxygen is greater than CO2.

It plays the key role and that is why it doesn’t form the lower layer in atmosphere.

Though carbon dioxide is heavier than air, but it has a tendency to mix with other gases of air and since the rest gases are found at higher altitude so the carbon dioxide could not be able to be in the lower layer of atmospheric air.


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