atmosphere Article Natural Formation of Chloro- and Bromoacetone in Salt Lakes of Western Australia Tobias Sattler 1,2,*, Matthias Sörgel 2,3, Julian Wittmer 4, Efstratios Bourtsoukidis 2, Torsten Krause 1, Elliot Atlas 5 , Simon Benk 1,6, Sergej Bleicher 4, Katharina Kamilli 4, Johannes Ofner 4, Raimo Kopetzky 3,7, Andreas Held 4,8,9, Wolf-Ulrich Palm 3 , Jonathan Williams 2, Cornelius Zetzsch 2,4,9 and Heinz-Friedrich Schöler 1 1 Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +49-6131-3054531 Received: 24 September 2019; Accepted: 26 October 2019; Published: 30 October 2019 Abstract: Western Australia is a semi-/arid region known for saline lakes with a wide range of 1 geochemical parameters (pH 2.5–7.1, Cl− 10–200 g L− ).