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Understanding multi-component nucleation is of great importance for atmospheric and environmental sciences. Vivid examples are: polar stratospheric clouds, acid rains and air pollution. All these phenomena occur because Earth’s atmosphere is a multi-component gaseous system in which nucleation leads to formation of droplets of complex composition. A rich field of applications of multi-component nucleation is associated with the natural gas industry since nucleation is the primary mechanism responsible for formation of mist during the expansion of natural gas [1]. This is the key process of the non-equilibrium gas-liquid separation technology[2].
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Kalikmanov, V.I. (2013). Multi-Component Nucleation. In: Nucleation Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 860. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3643-8_14
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