Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-19-229-2001
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Ozone isotopic composition: an angular effect in scattering processes?
Abstract. The ratio of the differential scattering cross sections involving distinguishable and indistinguishable isotopes may exhibit non-mass dependent angular variations. A numerical application of this hypotheses to the ozone reaction rates reproduces some of the results observed in laboratory experiments. This theory could be tested through a cross beam experiment where the isotopic composition of the scattered products is recorded as a function of their scattering angles.
Key words. Atmospheric composition and structure (middle atmosphere – composition and chemistry)