Recombinations of Chlorine Atoms
Abstract
IN a recent communication on the recombination of chlorine atoms Linnett and Booth1 reported a value of 3 × 1014 cm6 moles-2 sec-1 for the third-order rate constant defined by: The method used by these workers determines only the relative atom concentration along a tube. It is hence suitable for rate constant determinations when the process is first order in atom concentration. In this case, however, since the process is second order in Cl-atoms the absolute concentration must be known. Linnett and Booth could only `assume' arbitrary values for the absolute concentrations. It is our belief that these assumed values were wrong by an order of magnitude.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- February 1964
- DOI:
- 10.1038/201491a0
- Bibcode:
- 1964Natur.201..491B