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Articles | Volume 24, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-2045-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-2045-2024
Research article
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16 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 16 Feb 2024

Jet aircraft lubrication oil droplets as contrail ice-forming particles

Joel Ponsonby, Leon King, Benjamin J. Murray, and Marc E. J. Stettler

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