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. 2018 Dec 18;9:3086. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03086

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Calculated evaporation times using (A) equation 3 for airborne droplets of pure water at different relative humidity (at room temperature). All droplets below 20 μm in diameter, which was all of the aerosolized droplets, would have time to evaporate droplet water around the bacterial cell in the aerosolization setup even at high (90%) RH. (B) Calculated drying times for sessile droplets (with a contact angle <90°) on a surface at room temperature using equation 1. The red line indicates the drying times for the surface drying experiment.