Chemical reactions in the Titan's troposphere during lightning

Icarus

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 938-947

  Kovács, Tamás ^a   Turányi, Tamás ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Lightning; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952668528     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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