Enhanced formation of cubic ice in aqueous organic acid droplets

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Murray, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cubic ice; Glass formation; Homogeneous nucleation; Humidity; Ice clouds; Organic acids; Solution viscosity; Solvent mediated phase transformation; Upper troposphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CITRIC ACID; CLOUDS; DROPS; NUCLEATION; ORGANIC ACIDS; TROPOSPHERE;

CUBIC ICE; GLASS FORMATION; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; ICE CLOUDS; SOLUTION VISCOSITY; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ICE;

EID: 43949096812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/2/025008     Document Type: Article

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