A team from the US has revealed the mechanism in which extreme ionisation of ammonia takes place. Ammonia’s ionisation properties play an important role in many applications ranging from planetary atmospheres to radiation chemistry and in the production of energetic materials.
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Reference:
S G Sayres, M W Ross and A W Castleman Jr, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp20612e
