Accession Number:

AD0672172

Title:

ON THE INFLUENCE OF RECOMBINATION OF ATOMS IN INSTRUMENTS DURING MEASUREMENT OF COMPOSITION AND DENSITY OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE (O VLIYANII REKOMBINATSII ATOMOV V PRIBORE NA IZMERENIYA SOSTAVA I PLOTNOSTI VISOKIKH SLOEV ATMOSPHERI),

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

GEORGIA INST OF TECH ATLANTA ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION

Personal Author(s):

• Repnev,A. I.

Report Date:

1965-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

20.0

Abstract:

Oxygen dissociates to a considerable degree in the upper atmosphere. In measurements of composition or density of air, atoms of oxygen recombine in the instruments. The relative role of some recombination mechanisms is assessed here, and formulae are obtained which relate the density in the instrument to that in the atmosphere, by means of calculations of recombination on instrument surfaces. Author

Descriptors:

• *UPPER ATMOSPHERE
• ELECTRON DENSITY
• OXYGEN
• ATOMS
• RECOMBINATION REACTIONS
• MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
• INSTRUMENTATION
• HIGH ALTITUDE
• CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
• ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES
• OZONE
• ATOMIC PROPERTIES
• MEASUREMENT
• SURFACES
• PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS

Subject Categories:

• Atmospheric Physics
• Radiation and Nuclear Chemistry
• Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE