Carbon Monoxide Balance in Nature

@article{Weinstock1972CarbonMB,
  title={Carbon Monoxide Balance in Nature},
  author={Bernard Weinstock and Hiromi. Niki},
  journal={Science},
  year={1972},
  volume={176},
  pages={290 - 292},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:25223868}
}
It is concluded that carbon monoxide is produced at a rate of 5x1015 grams per year, a value some 25 times greater than the rate ofcarbon monoxide production from combustion, and hydroxyl radicals are shown to account for both the production of this large amount of carbonmonoxide by methane oxidation and for its removal by carbon mon dioxide oxidation.
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