A particle counter is used for monitoring and diagnosing particle contamination within specific clean media, including air, water, and chemicals. Particle...
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Particle. Antiparticle Brownian motion Corpuscularianism Fluid parcel Matter Mechanics Particle counter Particle detector Particle physics Particle physics...
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condensation particle counter or CPC is a particle counter that detects and counts aerosol particles by first enlarging them by using the particles as nucleation...
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energy β-particles. However, for discrimination between α- and β-particles or provision of particle energy information, scintillation counters or proportional...
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only particles of a certain diameter. The flow is introduced into a CPC, a condensation particle counter, which measures the concentration of particles in...
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A Coulter counter is an apparatus for counting and sizing particles suspended in electrolytes. The Coulter counter is the commercial term for the technique...
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A beta particle, also called beta ray or beta radiation (symbol β), is a high-energy, high-speed electron or positron emitted by the radioactive decay...
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Particulate matter (redirect from Fine particle)
particles per unit volume of air (particle number concentration). This can be done by using a condensation particle counter (CPC). To measure the atomic composition...
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Nanoparticle (redirect from Nano particle)
nanoparticle or ultrafine particle is a particle of matter 1 to 100 nanometres (nm) in diameter. The term is sometimes used for larger particles, up to 500 nm, or...
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area, in particular bacteria and fungi. Unlike real-time electronic particle counters, the Andersen sampler imparts pathogens on petri dishes, which require...
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(or air) can be measured with a turbidity meter and analyzed with a particle counter. They can also be scanned with an underwater microscope, such as ecoSCOPE...
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Wire chamber (redirect from Wire proportional counter)
multi-wire proportional chamber is a type of proportional counter that detects charged particles and photons and can give positional information on their...
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The proportional counter is a type of gaseous ionization detector device used to measure particles of ionizing radiation. The key feature is its ability...
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calibrating liquid particle counters. As the functionality of hydraulic fluids suffers when contaminated with particles, particle counters are used for contamination...
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(in polymer science): Reversible formation of aggregates in which the particles are not in physical contact. Agglomeration (except in polymer science)...
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Condensation particle counter (CPC) Epiphaniometer Electrical low pressure impactor (ELPI) Aerosol particle mass-analyser (APM) Centrifugal Particle Mass Analyser...
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placing the sample in a low humidity environment before weighing. Particle counter Occupational hygiene "Air Monitoring Calculators". Perfect Pollucon...
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morphology. Airborne UFPs can be measured using a condensation particle counter, in which particles are mixed with alcohol vapor and then cooled, allowing the...
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detector Geiger counter Ionization chamber Proportional counter Scintillation counter Semiconductor detector Commonly used detectors for particle and nuclear...
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fog, mist, haze, smoke, volcanic ash, dust, sand, and snow. Sources for particles that cause haze include farming (stubble burning, ploughing in dry weather)...
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Particle counters Condensation particle counter Laser particle counter Optical particle counter Particle sizers Scanning electrical mobility spectrometer...
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Dust is made of fine particles of solid matter. On Earth, it generally consists of particles in the atmosphere that come from various sources such as...
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Particle agglomeration refers to the formation of assemblages in a suspension and represents a mechanism leading to the functional destabilization of colloidal...
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excluded because they shed particulates in use. Particle levels are usually tested using a particle counter and microorganisms detected and counted through...
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Bioaerosols (short for biological aerosols) are a subcategory of particles released from terrestrial and marine ecosystems into the atmosphere. They consist...
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require minute hygroscopic particles upon which water vapor can condense. Over the ocean surface, the most common particles are salt from salt spray produced...
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properties, including microscopy and spectroscopy methods as well as particle counters. Metrology standards and reference materials for nanotechnology, while...
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process by which aerosol particles collect or deposit themselves on solid surfaces, decreasing the concentration of the particles in the air. It can be divided...
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A scintillation counter is an instrument for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation by using the excitation effect of incident radiation on a scintillating...
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dispersity is a measure of the heterogeneity of sizes of molecules or particles in a mixture. A collection of objects is called uniform if the objects...
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