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Recent Laboratory Photochemical Studies and Their Relationship to the Photochemical Formation of Cometary Radicals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

William M. Jackson
William M. Jackson*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of CaliforniaDavis, California 95616 United States ofAmerica

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Experimental laboratory techniques used in studying the photochemistry of stable and unstable molecules are discussed. The laboratory evidence for the photochemical formation of C2 from C2H, C3 from C3H2, and NH from NH2 is presented. Other recent results obtained in laboratory studies of H2O, H2S, NH3, and HCN are reported.

Type
Section II: Laboratory Studies and Simulations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 116 , Issue 1: Comets in the Post-Halley Era , 1989 , pp. 313 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991

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