Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2015-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2015-2013
Research article
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21 Feb 2013
Research article |  | 21 Feb 2013

Ambient black carbon particle hygroscopic properties controlled by mixing state and composition

D. Liu, J. Allan, J. Whitehead, D. Young, M. Flynn, H. Coe, G. McFiggans, Z. L. Fleming, and B. Bandy

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