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This paper will be referred as (Part I) from now on. Many of these works have produced absolute cross-sections. With new precise measurements of total and partial cross-sections, well-documented cross-section databases are available for many polyatomic targets, as it was previously for a few monoatomic and diatomic gases only. In particular the growing interest in atmospheric physics and chemistry, both regarding naturally occurring gases and anthropogenic pollutants, has fostered new experiments on molecules such CO 2 , SO 2 , N 2 O, O 3 , ClO 2 . Numerous data compilations are available; unfortunately, some of them can be found as Internet files only. Until a few years ago, the lack of reliable experimental data over a sufficiently large energy range has made the comparison between theory and experiment difficult: as a consequence, theoretical models could not be fully validated by comparison with reliable observations. We proposed in Part I that this situation was going to change; the growth of experimental data in the last years seems to confirm our prediction, even for the subfield of polyatomic molecules. In the present paper (Part II) we review cross-sections for polyatomic

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Author

Grzegorz P. Karwasz; Roberto S. Brusa; Antonio Zecca

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)