Zelenyuk and her colleagues performed comparable experiments with other PAHs and SOAs and found similar results.
In the real world, Zelenyuk said, the evaporation will be even slower. These results will help modelers better simulate atmospheric SOA particles and transport of pollutants over long distances.
This work was supported by the Department of Energy Office of Science and PNNL’s Chemical Imaging Initiative.
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Title of the Study: “Synergy between Secondary Organic Aerosols and Long-Range Transport of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons”
Authors: Alla Zelenyuk, Dan Imre, Josef Beránek, Evan Abramson, Jacqueline Wilson and Manish Shrivastava
Published in Environmental Science & Technology; November 7, 2012, doi: 10.1021/es302743z
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Source: By Mary Beckman, PNNL.
