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TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 416-431Publisher
STOCKHOLM UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00352.x
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We have measured critical supersaturations of dried single-component particles of sodium caprylate [CH3(CH2)(6)COONa], sodium caprate [CH3(CH2)(8)COONa], sodium laurate [CH3(CH2)(10)COONa] and sodium myristate [CH3(CH2)(12)COONa] in the diameter range 33-140 nm at 296 K using a static thermal gradient diffusion cloud condensation nucleus counter. These fatty acid sodium salts are surface active molecules which have all been identified in atmospheric aerosol particles. Experimental critical supersaturations increased systematically with increasing carbon chain length and were in the range 0.96-1.34% for particles with a dry diameter of 40 nm. The experimental data were modelled using Kohler theory modified to account for partitioning of the surface active fatty acid sodium salts between the droplet bulk and surface as well as Kohler theory including surface tension reduction without accounting for surfactant partitioning and Kohler theory using the surface tension of pure water. It was found that Kohler theory using the reduced surface tension with no account for surfactant partitioning underpredicts experimental critical supersaturations significantly, whereas Kohler theory modified to account for surfactant partitioning and Kohler theory using the surface tension of pure water reproduced the experimental data well.
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