Ice Nucleation Active Sites on Feldspar and Quartz
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Tobias Zolles, Julia Burkart, Thomas Häusler, Bernhard Pummer, Regina Hitzenberger and Hinrich Grothe* Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Materials Chemistry, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060 Vienna, Austria University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics, Boltzmanng. 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria University of Toronto, Chemistry Department, St. George St. 80, ON M5S 3H6 Toronto, Canada dMax-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Dept. Multiphase Chemistry, Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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