Conversion from gases to new particles in urban atmospheres (IMAGE)

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Conversion from gases to new particles in urban atmospheres

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On sunny days in megacities such as Beijing, gaseous acid and base pollutants form a large amount of new ultrafine particles. The clustering between one acid and one base is the rate-limiting step for new particle formation.

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