Articles | Volume 15, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7999-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7999-2015
Research article
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20 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 20 Jul 2015

Laboratory photochemical processing of aqueous aerosols: formation and degradation of dicarboxylic acids, oxocarboxylic acids and α-dicarbonyls

C. M. Pavuluri, K. Kawamura, N. Mihalopoulos, and T. Swaminathan

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