Beruflich Dokumente
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important science
Donald R. Blake
Department of Chemistry
University of CA, Irvine
Life lesson
Cell phone etiquette
Showing up at Armstrong without proper ID
Push outside your comfort zone
Genealogy
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Laws about combining gases
(1778-1850)
Willard Frank Libby
Nobel Prize 1960: 14C Dating
(1908-1980)
F. Sherwood Rowland
Nobel Prize 1995:
Stratospheric ozone
1927-2012
CFC-11
CFC-12
Cl
F
Lifetime:
Cl
Cl
Cl
50 years
Cl
102 years
The Experiment
Published in Nature, 1974
Incident Light = Li
CFC-12
hv > 220nm
Cl
F
Cl
Cl
F
Cl
hv < 220nm
Cl
F
Cl
Cl
C
F
Cl
F + Cl
Stratospheric Chemistry
Chapman 1930
O2 + hv O + O
O2 + O + M O3 + M *
O3 + hv O2 + O
O3 + O O2 + O2
O3 + hv O2+ O
hv < 320nm
Blake rack
Ridley rack
220
330
440
550
Legislation
~200 countries have signed the Montreal Protocol
2006
Acknowledgements
February 10, 2012