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Heaviside layer

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[After Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925), British physicist.]

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Heaviside layer - a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length

E layer, E region, Kennelly-Heaviside layer

ionosphere - the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere; contains a high concentration of free electrons

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