Aerosol silica as a possible candidate for the heterogeneous formation of nitric acid hydrates in the stratosphere

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May 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26.1433b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 10, p. 1433-1436

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry

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The liquid-solid phase transitions in nanometer-size HNO3/H2O solution droplets obtained on fumed silica (a counterpart of aerosol silica) have been studied with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). ``Soft'' transitions, reduction in the freezing and melting temperatures, Tf and Tm, and enthalpies, ΔHf and ΔHm, are interpreted to be caused by very small size of droplets. The observed difference between ΔHf and ΔHm can serve as an evidence of temperature dependence of the enthalpy of fusion for hydrates. Freezing of droplets with stoichiometry close to nitric acid trihydrate (NAT) at temperature 4 K warmer than the ice frost point indicates that, in the stratosphere, silica particles can serve as nuclei for heterogeneous freezing of NAT.

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