sink

in atmospheric chemistry
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.S05703
The @RT06841@ for material which is removed from the atmosphere. Because of long range transport of many pollutants such as SO2, sulfuric acid and its salts, the sink region can be many hundreds of kilometres from the source region of the pollutants.
Source:
PAC, 1990, 62, 2167. (Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990)) on page 2213 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'sink' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.S05703 RIS BibTex EndNote
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