Efflorescence transitions of ammonium sulfate particles coated with secondary organic aerosol

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2289-2295

  Takahama, Satoshi ^a   Pathak, Ravi K ^a   Pandis, Spyros N ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATOMIZATION; NANOPARTICLES; VOLUME FRACTION;

EFFLORESCENCE TRANSITIONS; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL (SOA); SMOG CHAMBER;

AEROSOLS;

AMMONIUM SULFATE; LIMONENE; NANOPARTICLE; PINENE;

AEROSOLS; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATOMIZATION; NANOPARTICLES; VOLUME FRACTION;

AEROSOL; AMMONIUM SULFATE; INORGANIC SALT; ORGANIC MATTER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SMOG;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; HUMIDIFIER; HUMIDITY; NEBULIZATION; OZONOLYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE;

AEROSOLS; AMMONIUM SULFATE; ATMOSPHERE; CYCLOHEXENES; HUMIDITY; MONOTERPENES; PHASE TRANSITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOG; TERPENES; WATER;

EID: 34247145593     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0619915     Document Type: Article

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