Technical note: Determination of binary gas-phase diffusion coefficients of unstable and adsorbing atmospheric trace gases at low temperature – arrested flow and twin tube method

Langenberg, Stefan; Carstens, Torsten; Hupperich, Dirk; Schweighoefer, Silke; Schurath, Ulrich

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3669-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3669-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3669-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

Technical note

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26 Mar 2020

Technical note |

| 26 Mar 2020

Technical note: Determination of binary gas-phase diffusion coefficients of unstable and adsorbing atmospheric trace gases at low temperature – arrested flow and twin tube method

Stefan Langenberg, Torsten Carstens, Dirk Hupperich, Silke Schweighoefer, and Ulrich Schurath

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SC1: 'Very nice work', Mingjin Tang, 11 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Mingjin Tang', Stefan Langenberg, 30 Dec 2019
RC1: 'Review Langenberg et al, gas phase diffusion coefficient measurements', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Jan 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to anonymous referee #1', Stefan Langenberg, 22 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Rev. of Technical Note: Determination ... diffusion coefficients', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Feb 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to anonymous referee #2', Stefan Langenberg, 18 Feb 2020

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Gas-phase diffusion is the first step for all heterogeneous reactions under atmospheric conditions. Therefore, we have used two complementary methods for the measurement of diffusion coefficients in the temperature range of 200–300 K: the arrested flow method is best suited for unstable gases (ozone, dinitrogen pentoxide, chlorine nitrate), and the twin tube method is best suited for stable but adsorbing trace gases (nitrogen dioxide, dinitrogen tetroxide).