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Nitric oxide is produced in the thermosphere as an indirect result of an intricate series of ion recombination, ion-atom interchange, and atom-atom interchange reactions which initially result in the production of atomic nitrogen. Table 1 lists the relevant reactions and rate coefficients. The atomic nitrogen may be produced either in its ground (4S) term or in the highly reactive metastable 2D term. Nitric oxide is then produced in the atom-atom interchange reactions 1 and 2 of Table 1 (see e.g. Strobel et al. 1970; Norton and Barth 1970; Rusch 1973).
This work has been supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Contract NAS5-23006
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Rusch, D.W. (1977). Odd Nitrogen in the Mesosphere and Thermosphere: Its Chemistry and Transport. In: Grandal, B., Holtet, J.A. (eds) Dynamical and Chemical Coupling Between the Neutral and Ionized Atmosphere. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1262-1_22
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