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Size Distribution of Tobacco Smoke Particles

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TOBACCO smoke from ordinary untipped proprietary branded cigarettes was collected directly on to various support films used in electron microscopy. ‘Formvar’ films were found to be most satisfactory in terms of particle resolution and film strength; with carbon, for example, the particles appeared to flow into one another more readily.

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  1. H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol,

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HARRIS, E., KAY, H. Size Distribution of Tobacco Smoke Particles. Nature 183, 741–742 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183741a0

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