K R May 1945 J. Sci. Instrum. 22 187 doi:10.1088/0950-7671/22/10/303
K R May
Show affiliationsA new instrument is described which will sample windborne and stationary aerosols such as natural fogs and clouds, fine sprays, insecticidal mists, coarse dusts, pollen and spores, etc. By means of four progressively finer jets impinging on glass slides in series the sample is split up into size-graded fractions in a form suitable for microscopic analysis. The greatest efficiency of sampling is achieved for particles in the range 50 μ-1.5μ diameter. The size-grading greatly facilitates the detailed microscopic examination of heterogeneous samples and in some cases enables approximate size-distributions to be obtained by bulk estimations of the samples without the need for microscopic sizing. Experimental results for the efficiency of jets in impacting particles are correlated by dimensional analysis, and a parameter of general applicability for estimating impaction efficiencies of jets is derived. Descriptions are given of new methods of dealing with volatile droplets and of analysing the samples.
Soft matter, liquids and polymers
Issue 10 (October 1945)
Received 29 May 1945
An Erratum for this article has been published in 1945 J. Sci. Instrum. 22 247
K R May 1945 J. Sci. Instrum. 22 187
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