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Published in final edited form as: J Quant Spectrosc Radiat Transf. 2022 Oct;254:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107197. doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107197

Table 2.

Number of Dipoles $(N_{dp})$ , Inter-dipole Distance $(d)$ , Absolute Complex Refractive Index ( $| m |$ ), and the $| m | k d$ Test Criterion.

Particle		Number of dipoles $(N_{dp})$	Inter-dipole distance $(d, μm)$	$\| m \|$ ¹	$\| m \| k d$ ¹
CaMg	1D	167,726	0.0271	1.502 1.673	0.433 0.483
	2N	186,775	0.0213	1.503 1.656	0.342 0.377
	3D	144,051	0.0149	1.502 1.665	0.240 0.265
	4N1	165,470	0.0136	1.503 1.658	0.218 0.241
Ca-rich	1D	176,707	0.0142	1.498 1.647	0.227 0.250
	2N	173,266	0.0178	1.515 1.573	0.287 0.298
	3D	159,660	0.0273	1.508 1.681	0.440 0.490
	4N1	171,313	0.0137	1.499 1.636	0.219 0.239
	4N2	232,605	0.0150	1.501 1.642	0.240 0.262
Ca-S	1D	157,025	0.0214	1.523 1.542	0.347 0.352
	2N	170,584	0.0165	1.524 1.542	0.268 0.271
	3D	170,330	0.0178	1.521 1.536	0.289 0.292
	4N	166,444	0.0160	1.521 1.538	0.260 0.263

Range of values covers the range of refractive indices for particles with magnetite, hematite, ankerite (CaMg particles), or siderite (Ca-rich particles).