Effects of common indoor air pollutants on the speed of sound

Acoustic Research Letters Online

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 118-123

  Muehleisen, Ralph T ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RESONANT SENSORS; GAS COMPOSITION; LASER PRINTERS;

AIR QUALITY; COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RELIABILITY; RESONANCE; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 0037702635     PISSN: 15297853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1498176     Document Type: Article

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