Nitrile gas chemistry in Titan's atmosphere

Icarus

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 625-635

  Gautier, Thomas ^a   Carrasco, Nathalie ^a   Buch, Arnaud ^b   Szopa, Cyril ^a   Sciamma O'Brien, Ella ^a   Cernogora, Guy ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Ecole Centrale Paris   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Chemistry; Experimental techniques; Prebiotic chemistry; Saturn, Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956201431     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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