Articles | Volume 5, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-3099-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-3099-2012
Research article
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20 Dec 2012
Research article |  | 20 Dec 2012

Technical Note: The single particle soot photometer fails to reliably detect PALAS soot nanoparticles

M. Gysel, M. Laborde, A. A. Mensah, J. C. Corbin, A. Keller, J. Kim, A. Petzold, and B. Sierau

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