The total rate coe
fficient,
k3,
for the reaction HO
2 + ClO
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f"> products has been determined over the temperaturerange o
f 220-336 K at a total pressure o
f approximately 1.5 Torr o
f helium using the discharge-
flow resonance-
fluorescence technique. Pseudo-
first-order conditions were used with both ClO and HO
2 as excess reagentsusing
four di
fferent combinations o
f precursor molecules. HO
2 molecules were
formed by using either thetermolecular association o
f H atoms in an excess o
f O
2 or via the reaction o
f F atoms with an excess o
f H
2O
2.ClO molecules were
formed by using the reaction o
f Cl atoms with an excess o
f O
3 or via the reaction o
f Clatoms with Cl
2O. Neither HO
2 nor ClO were directly observed during the course o
f the experiments, butthese species were converted to OH or Cl radicals, respectively, via reaction with NO prior to their observation.OH
fluorescence was observed at 308 nm, whereas Cl
fluorescence was observed at approximately 138 nm.Numerical simulations show that under the experimental conditions used secondary reactions did not inter
ferewith the measurements; however, some HO
2 was lost on conversion to OH
for experiments in excess HO
2.These results were corrected to compensate
for the simulated loss. At 296 K, the rate coe
fficient was determinedto be (6.4 ± 1.6) × 10
-12 cm
3 molecule
-1 s
-1. The temperature dependence expressed in Arrhenius
form is(1.75 ± 0.52) × 10
-12 exp[(368 ± 78)/
T] cm
3 molecule
-1 s
-1. The Arrhenius expression is derived
from a
fit weighted by the reciprocal o
f the measurement errors o
f the individual data points. The uncertainties arecited at the level o
f two standard deviations and contain contributions
from statistical errors
from the dataanalysis in addition to estimates o
f the systematic experimental errors and possible errors
from the appliedmodel correction.