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Science 19 October 1962:
Vol. 138. no. 3538, pp. 442 - 443
DOI: 10.1126/science.138.3538.442
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Air Pollution: Photooxidation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons

A. P. Altshuller 1, I. R. Cohen 1, S. F. Sleva 1, and S. L. Kopczynski 1

1 Division of Air Pollution, Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati 26, Ohio

A number of aromatic hydrocarbons participate as effectively as the olefins in atmospheric photooxidation reactions in the presence of nitrogen oxides and ultraviolet light. Judged both on the basis of reactivity and concentrations in the atmosphere, the aromatic hydrocarbons cannot be ignored as contributors to the photochemical type of air pollution.


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