The atmospheres of gas giants, brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars share the characteristic that they are cool enough for various molecular condensates to form clouds.
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- Atmospheric Chemistry in Giant Planets, Brown Dwarfs, and Low-Mass Dwarf Stars II. Sulfur and Phosphorus, Channon Visscher, Katharina Lodders, Bruce Fegley Jr, 2006
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