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Having established some background material for use in studying the bulk and surface properties of water and aqueous solutions, it is appropriate now to take a closer look at the equilibrium behavior of typical and/or idealized cloud particles of ice and water. In particular, we shall study the equilibrium of (Da pure water or aqueous solution drop surrounded by water vapor or humid air, (2) an ice crystal in humid air, (3) an ice crystal and a separate solution drop in humid air, and (4) an ice crystal immersed in a solution drop in humid air. We shall see later that the relationships provided by these case studies are needed in order to formulate the conditions for which cloud drops and ice crystals are nucleated in the atmosphere (Chapters 7 and 9).
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© 1978 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Pruppacher, H.R., Klett, J.D. (1978). Equilibrium Behavior of Cloud Drops and Ice Particles. In: Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9905-3_6
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