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Chemical Processes

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Planetary Aeronomy

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Chemical reactions provide the only true sink of ionization by recombination of ion pairs. In addition to this loss process, charge exchange reactions act as sources or sinks for particular ion species without perturbing the overall ionization balance [146].

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Bauer, S.J., Lammer, H. (2004). Chemical Processes. In: Planetary Aeronomy. Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09362-7_5

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