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. 2010 Nov 17;11(11):4631–4659. doi: 10.3390/ijms11114631

Figure 6.

Figure 6.

Formation of an exhaled breath sample. (a) Respiratory droplets are released from the surfaces of the airways/air spaces. Much greater quantities of water are released as vapor (dotted arrows); (b) when the respiratory droplets reach the condenser, they become diluted by large volumes of water vapor that are deposited as large droplets on the walls of the condenser.