Titan Atmospheric Chemistry Studies

Table 2: Conditions Of Simulation Experiment, Nature Of Sample Analyzed, Analysis Technique(s)

Reference	Column Symbol	Reactants + N2	Pressure	Energy	Type	Sample	Analysis
Toupance & Raulin, 1975	To	~% CH4		Discharge		volatiles	IR, GC
Thompson, 1991	Th	10% CH4	1700 Pa	Discharge	flow	volatiles	GC-MS
Navarro-Gonzalez & Ramirez, 1997	N	10% CH4	500 Torr	Discharge	static	volatiles	IR, GC-MS
Ferris et al. 1990; Clarke et al. 2000	F	cyanoacetylene/acetylene	700 Torr	Photolysis	static/flow	volatiles extractables	UV, NMR, MS
Khare et al., 1984	K	10% CH4	20 Pa	Discharge	flow	tholin	IR, Py-GC-MS
Ehrenfreund et al., 1995	E	"	"	"	"	tholin	Py-GC-MS
Coll et al., 1998; 1999	C	10% CH4	900 mb	Discharge	static	tholin	Py-GC-MS
Pietrogrande et al., 2001	P	10% CH4	800 mb	Discharge	flow	tholin	Py-GC-MS

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Table 1: Titan Atmospheric Chemistry Simulation Experiments
Table2: Conditions Of Simulation Experiment, Nature Of Sample Analyzed, Analysis Technique(s)
Table3a: Sample Compounds by Formula
Table3b: Sample Compounds by Molecular Weight

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