Quantification of Gas-Wall Partitioning in Teflon Environmental Chambers Using Rapid Bursts of Low-Volatility Oxidized Species Generated in Situ

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 5757-5765

  Krechmer, Jordan E ^a,b   Pagonis, Demetrios ^a,b   Ziemann, Paul J ^a,b   Jimenez, Jose L ^a,b  

^a Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; DECAY (ORGANIC); ION SOURCES; IONIZATION OF GASES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES;

CHAMBER EXPERIMENTS; CHEMICAL IONIZATION; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ION-MOLECULE REACTION; MASS CONCENTRATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SATURATION CONCENTRATION; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOLS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS;

POLITEF; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EQUILIBRIUM; GAS PHASE REACTION; IONIZATION; LABORATORY METHOD; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GAS WALL PARTITIONING; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOOXIDATION; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; ROOM VENTILATION; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SURFACE AREA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VAPOR PRESSURE; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMISTRY; VOLATILIZATION;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84973596720     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00606     Document Type: Article

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