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Application of the Pixe method in Atmospheric Aerosol Investigations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

C. Q. Orsini  and
L. C. Bouéres
C. Q. Orsini
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 20516, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
L. C. Bouéres
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 20516, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Investigations of Atmospheric Aerosol Systems (let us abbreviate AAS) have now spread to many laboratories around the world, mainly because of the important role they assume in the air pollution problem.

In most cases, the studies on AAS attempt to evaluate the so-called “size-distribution function”, through which the general behavior of such a system is commonly described.

Type
XRF Applications in Environmental Analysis
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 23: Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1979 , 1979 , pp. 143 - 148
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1979

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