(ËvÉr bÉl) adj. 1. of or consisting of words: verbal ability. 2. spoken rather than written; oral: verbal communication. 3. concerned with words only, rather than with the ideas, facts, or realities expressed: a purely verbal distinction. 4. corresponding word for word; verbatim: a verbal translation.
Life is the process that resolves these disequilibria.. The water world theory suggests that the warm, alkaline hydrothermal vents maintained an unbalanced state with respect to the surrounding ancient, acidic ocean - one that could have created two chemical imbalances. The first was a proton gradient, where hydrogen ions were concentrated more on the outside of the vent's chimneys.
How did Venus get this way. -Runaway greenhouse gases raised temps and got rid of surface water. -Early plate tectonics brings up internal water and CO2 from early limestone in atmosphere. -No surface water means no way of trapping CO2, so it stays in the atmosphere now, meaning huge pressure and high temps. --Internal water was important for plate tectonics.