Research on the Chemical Reactions of Metastable Atmospheric Gas Species.
Abstract
The report includes a general review of the present status of experimental as well as theoretical studies of the O + NO chemiluminescence and their correlation with the spectroscopy, fluorescence, and quantum chemsitry of NO2. It describes the measurement of the rate constant of the N(doublet D) + NO reaction by vacuum uv resonance line absorption, and infrared chemiluminescent emission measurements in the one to four micrometers wavelength range (a) of the O + NO recombination providing an absolute value of the effective second-order radiative rate constant; (b) of the O3 + NO reaction which is shown to produce vibrationally excited NO2 in large yield whose quenching rate constants by NO2, NO, O2, N2, and Ar are measured; and (c) of the H + NO2, H + O3, and N + O3 reactions in preliminary, mainly qualitative experiments. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 31, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0769958
Entities
People
- Frederick Kaufman
Organizations
- University of Pittsburgh