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EVIDENCE has accumulated in recent years that nitrogen is at least partially dissociated in the upper atmosphere. However, thus far the precise process causing the dissociation of nitrogen has not been established, except that it has been suggested that only the extremely short ultra-violet beyond 500 A. could produce it1.
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HERZBERG, G., HERZBERG, L. Production of Nitrogen Atoms in the Upper Atmosphere. Nature 161, 283 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161283a0
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