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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 9.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Mineral. 2021 Feb 9;33(1):77–112. doi: 10.5194/ejm-33-77-2021

Table 5.

Percentage of particles that belong to a specific particle-size category based on their Dae, which was determined by using different microscopy imaging techniques.

Optical 10×(not ground) SEM 200×(ground) SEM 2000×(ground) TEM 25000×(ground) Merged
Inhalable (<100 μm) 43.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
PM10 (equivalent to thoracic) 0.00% 49.00% 99.00% 100.00% 81.02%
Respirable (<4 μm) 0.00% 10.00% 86.00% 100.00% 65.74%
PM2.5 0.00% 1.00% 66.00% 100.00% 55.09%