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Author: Fahlman, Bradley D., Purvis-roberts, Kathleen, Kirk, John S., Bentley, Anne K., Daubenmire, Patrick L., ELLIS, Jamie P., Mury, Michael T., American Chemical Society

Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,

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Chapter 2.14, Problem 2.25YT

Summarize what you have learned about ozone formation by developing your own way to arrange these chemicals sequentially and in relation to one another: O, O₂, O₃, VOCs, NO, and NO₂. Chemicals may appear as many times as you like. You also may wish to include sunlight.

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