Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1659-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1659-2019
Research article
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14 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 14 Mar 2019

Ultrasonic nebulization for the elemental analysis of microgram-level samples with offline aerosol mass spectrometry

Rachel E. O'Brien, Kelsey J. Ridley, Manjula R. Canagaratna, John T. Jayne, Philip L. Croteau, Douglas R. Worsnop, Sri Hapsari Budisulistiorini, Jason D. Surratt, Christopher L. Follett, Daniel J. Repeta, and Jesse H. Kroll

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