Articles | Volume 13, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-11465-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-11465-2013
Research article
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26 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 26 Nov 2013

Influence of aerosol lifetime on the interpretation of nucleation experiments with respect to the first nucleation theorem

S. Ehrhart and J. Curtius

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