“…• [Dickinson and Sherrill, 1926;Noyes, 1927;Volman, 1954Volman, , 1956Volman et al, 1959;Gill and Laidler, 1958]. Reaction (2) also has been suggested as the source of ozone in gas discharges [Benson and Axworthy, 1959;Benson, 1959]. The identity of the 02* state has been variously ascribed to vibrationally hot O2 in the ground electronic state [Volman, 1954[Volman, , 1956 O (9 x 10-a2 cm-3 s -a) and 02 (2.9 x 10-a3 cm-3 s-a).…”