Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2233-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2233-2019
Research article
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20 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 20 Feb 2019

Aliphatic carbonyl compounds (C8–C26) in wintertime atmospheric aerosol in London, UK

Ruihe Lyu, Mohammed S. Alam, Christopher Stark, Ruixin Xu, Zongbo Shi, Yinchang Feng, and Roy M. Harrison

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Organic matter comprises a substantial proportion of the mass of toxic airborne particles which cause poor health and premature death. In this paper, new measurements of three important groups of organic compounds are reported and are analysed to infer their sources and their contributions to airborne particle concentrations.
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