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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-11829-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-11829-2025
Research article
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01 Oct 2025
Research article |  | 01 Oct 2025

Retention during freezing of raindrops – Part 2: Investigation of ambient organics from Beijing urban aerosol samples

Jackson Seymore, Martanda Gautam, Miklós Szakáll, Alexander Theis, Thorsten Hoffmann, Jialiang Ma, Lingli Zhou, and Alexander L. Vogel

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We investigated the chemical retention of water-soluble organic compounds in Beijing aerosols using an acoustic levitator and drop-freezing experiments. Samples from PM2.5 filter extracts were frozen at -15 °C in an acoustic levitator without artificial nucleators and analyzed using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry. Our findings reveal a non-normal distribution of retention coefficients that differs from current literature on cloud droplets.
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