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The Air-Sea Exchange of Low Molecular Weight Halocarbon Gases

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The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIC,volume 185))

Abstract

The gases considered in this chapter all contain a halogen-carbon bond and have up to three carbon atoms in the molecule; they include methyl halides (CH3CI, CH3Br, CH3I), haloforms (CHC13, CHBr3), carbon tetrachloride (CC14), and man-made chlorofluorocarbons, amongst others. Organo-halogens of high molecular weight are discussed in the article in this book by Atlas. Inorganic halogen gases aren’t dealt with here, even though air-sea transfer is important in the cycling of several of them; for example the air-to-sea transfer of SF, the possible emission of I2 from the oceans by reaction of O3 with I- in surface seawater (Garland and Curtis, 1981), and the evolution of HC1g from sea-salt droplets in the atmosphere (see Duce and Hoffman, 1976 for a review). The only fluorine compounds to be mentioned are the man-made chlorofluorocarbons (often referred to by the Dupont tradename ‘Freons’), since natural organo-fluorine gases do not appear to have been detected in the environment.

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Liss, P.S. (1986). The Air-Sea Exchange of Low Molecular Weight Halocarbon Gases. In: Buat-Ménard, P. (eds) The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling. NATO ASI Series, vol 185. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4738-2_12

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