Contact efflorescence as a pathway for crystallization of atmospherically relevant particles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 52, 2015, Pages 15815-15820

  Davis, Ryan D ^a   Lance, Sara ^a,c   Gordon, Joshua A ^b   Ushijima, Shuichi B ^a   Tolbert, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Air quality; Climate; Coagulation; Efflorescence

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM NITRATE; AMMONIUM SULFATE; INORGANIC SALT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AIR QUALITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMIDITY; MATERIAL STATE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84952683318     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1522860113     Document Type: Article

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