Ionic and Neutral Reactions Relevant to Communications and Ionospheric Processes.
Abstract
A brief review of data on identifying important ions following associative ionization processes of U and Th has indicated that UO2(+) and ThO2(+) are probably the respective terminal ions in atmospheric processes. These ions are either formed directly or are produced by the ion-molecule reaction MO(+) + O2 yield MO2(+) + O. Two contributions were made to the field of neutral-neutral processes: to aid vibrational relaxation measurements on HX species, a pre-titration flow tube system was built which provides simple and accurate measurements of H-atom densities; and a tunable dye laser wavelength narrowing attachment was put into operation which makes possible the measurement of OH densities at > or = 10 to the 8th power/cu.cm. This has been used to determine the rate constant of an atmospherically important reaction of the HO2 radical. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 15, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA047876
Entities
People
- Frederick Kaufman
- Wade L. Fite
Organizations
- University of Pittsburgh