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Aerosol chemical processes in the environment/ ... pollutants, including inorganic and organic aerosols, are involved in the observed
deterioration and decline of forests in Europe and North America.
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The saddle point on the free energy surface can be found by setting
(2.19)
Applying these conditions to Equation 2. 17 and making use of the Gibbs-Duhem ... between
the embryo and the surrounding substrate. The embryo formation occurs via three successive stages.
In the beginning, the surface area of the int...
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The second term in the brackets describes the growth at the initial salt concentration and does not
depend on salt diffusivity. The third ... one (
t
1
) is the time
interval during which the steady-state field of the vapor is established in the vicinity of the drop.
The time interval
t...
... In the semi-acid region of Colorado, the pH is constant at 7. 30 in the first
part of a storm and drops to 7. 00 in the second part. In Italy, the pH oscillated between 6.4 and
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The drop freezing technique gives the freezing nucleus content present in a sample of precip-
itation...
... Equation 6 .79 shows that temperature affects the water-activity polynomial
beginning only in the fourth term. In Equation 6 .79 , temperature affected the solute activity
beginning with the second ... be in equilibrium with
each other at the gas–solution interface. Thus, the number of molecules of AB transferring from
the gas to the solution equals the number of molec...
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the index of refraction. As this imaginary part increases, both the angular scattering intensity
distribution and the size scattering intensity, ... of the effects of the imaginary part on the scattering function. Besides
the effects of the imaginary part on the Mie scattering function, the variation in t...
... analysis of the - isotherms and discovered charac-
teristic "kinks" in the isotherms. They attributed the "kinks" to impurities that were introduced
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the droplet weight is balanced by the force of the electric field, the ratio of the levitating vol...
... aerosols into the nearby
environment (Figure 10.25) as well as into the global atmsophere.
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Chernobyl Aerosol Characterization
The Chernobyl accident resulted in the discharge from the damaged ... impacts on the total global
environment,
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including the health of the general population,
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ecological systems,
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etc. On the
other hand, the mea...