Atmospheric chemistry

Atmospheric chemistry

A scientific study of the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets.

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tetrachloroethane

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

No longer intentionally produced by industrial plants in the United States as an end product. In the past it was often used as a solvent and was a component found in several pesticides. There are ...

NO 2 , is the lesser of the two emitted NO x gases from high temperature combustion in air; NO the other. NO x production occurs in all internal combustion engines that use atmospheric oxygen from ...

nitrogen oxides

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

NO x (pronounced "nox") are produced from high temperature combustion in air. They are nitrogen oxide and nitrogen dioxide (see above). Nitrogen monoxide is produced to varying degrees by all ...

oxygen

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

O 2 , is found on Earth as a gas and constitutes about 20. 8% of the air we breathe. Elemental molecular oxygen consists of two oxygen atoms bonded together. A photochemical reaction of oxygen is ...

ozone

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

O 3 , is a molecule that consists of three oxygen atoms bonded together. The ozone layer in the stratosphere absorbs UV radiation and creates a warm layer of air in the stratosphere and is therefore ...

oxygen radical

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

O . is the result of the oxygen molecule (O 2 ) being photodissociated at a wavelength less than 242 nm. These two oxygen atoms react with O 2 (in the presence of a third body) and create ozone ...

ice core

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

Often used by humans to determine the historic chemical composition of the atmosphere; the source of the ice core is the snow which falls on the glacier which consolidates upon freezing and in which ...