Atmospheric OH radical (atmospheric detergent)

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the atmospheric-chemistry subtree

Levy 1971: OH radical produced by O(1D) + H2O; primary oxidant of trace gases (CH4 / CO / VOCs); lifetime ~1 sec; abundance ~10^6 cm^-3 in tropics; major sink for atmospheric pollutants.

Related concepts

Linear ODE
Boltzmann entropy formula
O2 (Priestley 1774)
CFC-O3 (Rowland-Molina 1974)
Kerogen (Berner 1999)
Köhler (1936)
Methane budget (Saunois 2020)

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