Calculations of the thermochemistry of six reactions leading to ammonia formation in Titan's atmosphere

Icarus

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-158

  Ge, Su hong ^a,b   Cheng, Xin lu ^a   Yang, Xiang dong ^a   Liu, Zi jiang ^c   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Lanzhou Teachers College   (China)

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Titan

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EID: 33646950424     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.01.018     Document Type: Article

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