Is benzene a precursor for secondary organic aerosol?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1045-1054

  Martín Reviejo, Montserrat ^a   Wirtz, Klaus ^a  

^a EUPHORE Laboratories   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BENZENE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

AEROSOL VOLUME; PHOTOSMOG EXPERIMENTS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL (SOA); SIMULATION CHAMBERS;

AEROSOLS;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZENE; NITRIC OXIDE;

AEROSOL; BENZENE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; DENSITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOOXIDATION; SMOG;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; BENZENE; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TIME FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 13844289262     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es049802a     Document Type: Article

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