A method for the high‐temperature generation of reactive species in supersonic molecular beams has been developed. Pyrolysis temperatures (25–1800 °C) can be maintained for longer than 100 h for extended experiments. Short contact time (≊10 μs) of the seeded (<1 Torr partial pressure in 2 atm inert carrier gas) precursor molecules suppresses recombination of the product radicals. Number densities for radicals are estimated to be ≊1014 cm−3 at the sonic orifice with radical fluxes of ≊1016 s−1.
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