Identification of Ice Nucleation Active Sites on Silicate Dust Particles
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(1) Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna, Austria ([email protected]), (2) University of Toronto, Chemistry Department, St. George St. 80, ON M5S 3H6 Toronto, Canada, (3) Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Dept. Multiphase Chemistry, Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128 Mainz, Germany, (4) University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics, Boltzmanng. 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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تاریخ انتشار 2015