The Possible External Factor Effecting On NO2 Molecule During Lightning Flash Under Corona Discharge

Year 2021, Volume: 11 Issue: 2, 82 - 86, 20.12.2021

Ezman Karabulut

https://doi.org/10.17678/beuscitech.1015137

Abstract

The focus in this study is on the formation of the NO2 molecule on the O+NO system, which is the atom-diatom reaction that occurs the most according to the molecular concentrations formed as a result of lightning flashes. In this study, it was mentioned that another external effect that affects NO2 molecule concentrations, other than temperature and visible electromagnetic radiation, is the electric field. This will suppress the formation of O2 at high temperatures and the formation of NO concentration at low temperature, as it increases the barrier in the product channel on the reaction pathway and NO+O recombination in the reactant channel under favorable conditions. Under these two conditions, the NO2 population might be supported by electric field.

Keywords

Corona discharge, Lightning Flash, Electric Field, NO2 molecule, Cloud

Thanks

The numerical calculations reported in this paper were partially performed at TUBITAK ULAKBIM, High Performance and Grid Computing Center (TRUBA resources). That is why, the author is grateful to the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey for TR-Grid facilities and to Bitlis Eren University for Gaussian09W and GaussView5.0 Program support.

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