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Other atmospheric chemists are skeptical. California State University at Fullerton Professor of Chemistry Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, who is currently researching the chlorine hypothesis, says chlorine is more likely to create ozone than destroy...
According to Finlayson-Pitts, organic molecules such as hydrocarbons participate in a string of reactions involving hydroxide (OH) to eventually form nitrogen dioxide and ozone...
...Finlayson-Pitts and her colleagues are studying the possibility that chlorine can serve as a substitute for hydroxide, reacting with organics to hasten the formation of ozone. And, she says, the chlorine reaction might take place instantaneously, while the hydroxide reaction can take up to two weeks...
...Finlayson-Pitts concedes that chlorine can react to destroy ozone as well as to create...
...depends on the conditions," says Finlayson-Pitts. "If there are enough organics, the chlorine will react with them quickly to produce ozone rather than destroying...