Release of nitrous acid and nitrogen dioxide from nitrate photolysis in acidic aqueous solutions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 11991-12001

  Scharko, Nicole K ^a   Berke, Andrew E ^a,b   Raff, Jonathan D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROUS ACID; AEROSOL; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN OXIDE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NITRATE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORGANIC ACID; OZONE;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACIDITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CAVITY ENHANCED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; COMPLEX FORMATION; HYDROLYSIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PH; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOLYSIS; QUANTUM YIELD; STEADY STATE; AEROSOL; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

AEROSOLS; NITRATES; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; NITROUS ACID; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; SOLUTIONS; WATER;

EID: 84908149267     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503088x     Document Type: Article

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