Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-3851-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-3851-2015
Research article
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10 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 10 Apr 2015

Determination of interfacial parameters of a soluble particle in a nonideal solution from measured deliquescence and efflorescence humidities

O. Hellmuth and A. K. Shchekin

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (04 Mar 2015) by Tuukka Petäjä
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To study the growth/shrinking of a hygroscopic nanoparticle during hydration/dehydration in an atmosphere of water vapour we employed a thermodynamic approach. For application to a nanometric sodium chloride particle we extended the original approach and demonstrated how the solution/solute interface energy and the correlation length of a thin solution film can be determined from a combination of experimentally determinable efflorescence and deliquescence humidities with the present calculus.
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