upper atmosphere
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The friction of the compressed atmosphere liquefied the earth and splashed it up to 40 kilometers into the air.
From Scientific American • Aug. 9, 2019
The divers breathe comfortably, and they suffer no other inconveniences than those resulting from a prolonged sojourn in a compressed atmosphere, no longer at a normal pressure.
From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules
These phenomena, or rather some of them, appear some time within half an hour after the subject has left the compressed atmosphere.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various
