Sulfur mass-independent fractionation patterns in the broadband UV photolysis of sulfur dioxide: Pressure and third body effects

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 253-260

  Masterson, Andrew L ^a,b   Farquhar, James ^a   Wing, Boswell A ^a,c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Minor sulfur isotopes; S MIF; SO2 isotopologues; UV photochemistry

Indexed keywords

BATH GAS; ISOTOPOLOGUES; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; LOW PRESSURES; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; S RATIO; S-MIF; SELF-SHIELDING; SO2 ISOTOPOLOGUES; SULFUR ISOTOPE; THIRD BODY EFFECTS; UV PHOTOCHEMISTRY; UV PHOTOLYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EXCITED STATES; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTIONATION; GALLIUM; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; PHOTOLYSIS; ROCK PRODUCTS; SHIELDING; SULFUR;

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; HELIUM; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; PRESSURE EFFECT; REACTION KINETICS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 79956306779     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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