Articles | Volume 19, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13355-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-13355-2019
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30 Oct 2019
Research article |  | 30 Oct 2019

Rate enhancement in collisions of sulfuric acid molecules due to long-range intermolecular forces

Roope Halonen, Evgeni Zapadinsky, Theo Kurtén, Hanna Vehkamäki, and Bernhard Reischl

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The rate of collisions between molecules or clusters is used to determine particle formation in the atmosphere. The basic approach is to treat the colliding particles as noninteracting hard spheres. By using atomistic simulations with a realistic force field and theoretical approaches, we showed that the actual collision rate of two sulfuric acid molecules is more than twice as high as that for hard spheres. The results of this study will improve models of atmospheric particle growth.
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