Abstract
IT is known that the fluorescence of many hydrocarbons and particularly of the polycyclic hydrocarbons in solution is often strongly quenched by molecular oxygen1,2. We have now investigated several other gases with regard to their quenching effect towards polycyclic hydrocarbons.
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WEIL-MALHERBE, H., WEISS, J. Quenching of Fluorescence by Nitric Oxide. Nature 151, 449 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151449a0
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