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Meylan W, Howard D (1996) Estimation Accuracy of the Atmospheric Oxidation Program. Syracuse Research Corporation, Syracuse, NY. Mill T (1980) Chemical and photooxidation. In: Hutzinger O (ed) The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Vol. 2. Springer, Berlin, pp. 77–105. Mill T, Mabey WR, Bomberger DC, Chou TW, Hendry DG, Smith JH (1981) Laboratory protocols for evaluating the fate of organic chemicals in air and water. EPA Contract No. 68-03-2227. USEPA, Athens, GA. Miller GC, Hebert VR (1987) Environmental photodecomposition of residues.

Pankow JF (1987) Review and comparative analysis of the theories on partitioning between the gas and aerosol particulate phases in the atmosphere. Atmos Environ 21: 2275–2283. Pankow JF (1994) An absorption model of gas/particle partitioning of organics in the atmosphere. Atmos Environ 28:185–188. Pawliszyn J (1997) Solid Phase Microextraction: Theory and Practice. Wiley-VCH, New York. Pilar M, Tuazon EC, Atkinson R, Maugham AD (2002) Atmospheric gas-phase reactions of selected phosphorus containing compounds.

Because of the difficulty in monitoring OH, relative rate measurement techniques are instead widely used for determination of rate constants of tropospheric oxidation (Atkinson 1986; Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts 1986; Goodman et al. 1988; Kwok et al. 1995; Pilar et al. 2002). These studies involve monitoring the simultaneous loss over time of a test substance with unknown kOH in the presence of the reference compound with known kOH, even when the concentration of hydroxyl radicals is not constant over the experimental timeframe (Atkinson 1986).

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