Positive-Ion Chemistry: High Yields of Heavy Hydrocarbons from Solid Methane by Ionizing Radiation

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May 1964

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1964sci...144..991d&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 144, Issue 3621, pp. 991-992

Physics

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At 77circK solid methane is polymerized rapidly and efficiently to heavy hydrocarbons by cobalt-60 gamma rays. The product is a viscous oil consisting mainly of saturated and highly branched hydrocarbons containing an average of about 20 carbon atoms per molecule. This would seem to be evidence for positive-ion chemical reactions in the solid state analogous to those previously reported to occur in the gaseous state at pressures above 0.01 mm-Hg. It would thus appear that the solar ionizing ultraviolet radiation (about 1 erg cm-2 sec-1 at the earth) must polymerize methane at an appreciable rate under many likely conditions.

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