English Explanatory Dictionary

chromosphere

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The faint pink extension of a star's atmospheric envelope between the corona and the photosphere

Word forms

chromosphere chromospheres

Etymology

From chromo- + -sphere.

Derived words

chromospheric

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