Fossil-dominated secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation in coastal China: size-divergent pathways of aqueous Fenton reactions versus gas-phase volatile organic compound (VOC) autoxidation

Wang, Jia-Yuan; Tang, Meng-Xue; Lu, Shan; Tang, Ke-Jin; Peng, Xing; He, Ling-Yan; Huang, Xiao-Feng

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-9831-2025

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Fossil-dominated secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation in coastal China: size-divergent pathways of aqueous Fenton reactions versus gas-phase volatile organic compound (VOC) autoxidation

Jia-Yuan Wang, Meng-Xue Tang, Shan Lu, Ke-Jin Tang, Xing Peng, Ling-Yan He, and Xiao-Feng Huang

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