Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-301-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-301-2014
Research article
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29 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 29 Jan 2014

Design and characterization of a smog chamber for studying gas-phase chemical mechanisms and aerosol formation

X. Wang, T. Liu, F. Bernard, X. Ding, S. Wen, Y. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Q. He, S. Lü, J. Chen, S. Saunders, and J. Yu

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