Trimethylamine as precursor to secondary organic aerosol formation via nitrate radical reaction in the atmosphere

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4689-4696

  Silva, Philip J ^a   Erupe, Mark E ^a   Price, Derek ^a   Elias, John ^a   Malloy, Quentin G J ^b   Li, Qi ^b   Warren, Bethany ^b   Cocker III, David R ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AMINATION; AMINES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRATES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REACTION KINETICS; REACTION RATES;

AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETRY; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER (PM2.5); NITRATE RADICALS; RELATED COMPOUNDS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL (SOA); TRIMETHYLAMINE (TMA);

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; AMINES;

NITRATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; TRIMETHYLAMINE;

AEROSOL FORMATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDATION;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; PARTICULATE MATTER; WINTER;

AEROSOLS; AMINES; ATMOSPHERE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLAMINES; NITRATES; PARTICULATE MATTER; UTAH;

AEROSOL PHASE; CONVERSION RATES; DIURNAL PATTERN; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; FINE PARTICULATES; LOWER BOUNDS; NITRATE RADICALS; OXIDATION CHEMISTRY; PEAK CONCENTRATIONS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS; SMOG CHAMBERS; TERTIARY AMINE; TRIMETHYLAMINE;

EID: 46849102137     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es703016v     Document Type: Article

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