Chemistry (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
ISBN 10: 0078021529
ISBN 13: 978-0-07802-152-7

Chapter 21 - Questions and Problems - Page 978: 21.4

Answer

Jupiter’s atmosphere consists mainly of hydrogen $H_{2}$ (90 percent) and helium $He$ (9 percent). while, The Earth's atmosphere is composed of 21 percentage of oxygen $O_{2}$, 78 percentage of nitrogen $N_{2}$, 19 % other including $-\gt$ 0.9 percentage of argon, and 0.1 percentage some more gases like $CO_{2} , CH_{4}$ etc.

Work Step by Step

Jupiter is a huge planet and it can hold these hydrogen and helium with its gravity the gases dominated in the huge planet only because of its great gravity power. But the gravity of Earth is not strong that much , so atmosphere of Earth's has only free hydrogen , oxygen nitrogen abundantly and other gases that's the compositional difference.
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