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Laboratory Observations of the Photochemistry of Parent Molecules: A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

William M. Jackson

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Many years ago K. Wurm (1) suggested that the photodissociation of stable molecules such as H2O, HCN, CH4, NH3, etc., could account for the observed cometary radicals. This postulate can be represented schematically by the following photochemical reaction,

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Part II
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International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 25 , Issue Part2: The Study of Comets , 1976 , pp. 679 - 705
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Copyright © NASA 1976

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