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New methods for aerosol size distribution determination with a diffusion battery

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The method of precipitation of granules on the walls of narrow flow tubes furnishes data that are dependent on both the grain size and the particle abundance. The objective desired is to determine both of these quantities from the observations. The paper presents an analytic method for doing so. It is tested on a uranine aerosol, and the results are found to compare favorably with electron microscope studies of the same aerosol.

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  1. Service Technique d'Etudes de Protection, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, B.P. No. 6, 92260, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

    J. P. Maigne & G. Madelaine

  2. Laboratoire de Physique des Aérosols, Université de Paris VI, 11, Quai Saint-Bernard, 75005, Paris, France

    P. -Y. Turpin & J. Bricard

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Maigne, J.P., Madelaine, G., Turpin, P.Y. et al. New methods for aerosol size distribution determination with a diffusion battery. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 3, 527–535 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00341006

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