Peroxynitrite diffusion distance

The potentially greater toxicity of peroxynitrite can be readily visualized by comparing the mean diffusion distances that various nitrogen and oxygen-centered species may traverse in one lifetime. The definition of lifetime (t) is the time required for 67% of the initial concentration to decompose, and is readily calculated as the reciprocal of the pseudo-first-order rate constant for the disappearance of the species in question. Distances were calculated from the following equation, which is readily derived from the Fick s laws of diffusion (Nobel, 1983 Pryor, 1992). 

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