The Production of Condensation Nuclei by Crystallizing Salt Particles
By: S. Twomey and K. N. McMaster
Abstract
Experiments were conducted to examine the possibility of condensation nuclei being produced by salt droplets when the environmental humidity was lowered sufficiently for crystallization to take place. It was found that condensation nuclei were in fact produced when salt particles crystallized, each salt particle producing at least several hundred nuclei. It is suggested that these nuclei consisted of minute salt crystals, with mass in the range 10−18 to 10−14g, released from the main mass of salt during crystallization.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v7i4.8916 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 458 - 461
Published on: Jan 1, 1955
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 1955 S. Twomey, K. N. McMaster, published by Stockholm University Press
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