What is the atmospheric layer in which solar energy strips electrons from nitrogen and oxygen atoms, causing them to become positive ions.

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Eliana Ortiz

23 October, 21:32

What is the atmospheric layer in which solar energy strips electrons from nitrogen and oxygen atoms, causing them to become positive ions.

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Darryl Lucas · Answer 1

thermosphere

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The presence of the isolated molecules of gas in the thermosphere which includes the ionosphere is further broken into smaller ions particles by sun electrons that strip the oxygen and the nitrogen molecules and these ionized gases make up the ionosphere that about 80 o 400 km.