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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 132, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3427537
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- ACCENT
- Atmospheric Composition Change
- European Network of Excellence
- DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service
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Homogeneous nucleation rates of water at temperatures between 240 and 270 K were measured in a laminar flow diffusion chamber at ambient pressure and helium as carrier gas. Being in the range of 10(2)-10(6) cm(-3) s(-1), the experimental results extend the nucleation rate data from literature consistently and fill a pre-existing gap. Using the macroscopic vapor pressure, density, and surface tension for water we calculate the nucleation rates predicted by classic nucleation theory (CNT) and by the empirical correction function of CNT by Wolk and Strey [J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 11683 (2001)]. As in the case of other systems (e.g., alcohols), CNT predicts a stronger temperature dependence than experimentally observed, whereas the agreement with the empirical correction function is good for all data sets. Furthermore, the isothermal nucleation rate curves allow us to determine the experimental critical cluster sizes by use of the nucleation theorem. A comparison with the critical cluster sizes calculated by use of the Gibbs-Thomson equation is remarkably good for small cluster sizes, for bigger ones the Gibbs-Thomson equation overestimates the cluster sizes. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3427537]
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