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CHEMICAL processes, induced by ultraviolet light in some aqueous inorganic nitrates, are of substantial interest in the chemistry of atmospheric aerosols. Nitrates form a large fraction of the inorganic natural aerosol1 and, although they might be expected to decompose under sunlight2, no systematic work on such photolysis has, as yet, been reported.
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GORI, E., PETRICONI, G. & PAPÉE, H. Ultraviolet Photolysis of Sodium Nitrate Solutions in the Laboratory and by Sunlight. Nature 217, 248–249 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217248a0
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