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Laboratory Observations of the Photochemistry of Parent Molecules: A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

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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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