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Atmospheric chemistry:  Bromine explosion

Paul Wennberg1

Bromine free radicals are emerging as important players in the photochemistry of the lower atmosphere, at least on local scales. Earlier this month, Hebestreit et al.1 described the discovery of air laden with bromine monoxide (BrO) wafting off the salt pans near the Dead Sea.

  1. Paul Wennberg is in the Division of Geological and Planetary Science, and the Department of Environmental Engineering Science, MS 150-21, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
    e-mail: Email: wennberg@gps.caltech.edu