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. 2016 May 25;533(7604):527–531. doi: 10.1038/nature18271

Extended Data Figure 8. Typical experiment during CLOUD8.

Extended Data Figure 8

α-Pinene was injected under neutral conditions. Once stable conditions were achieved, the clearing (HV) field was turned off allowing ions from Galactic cosmic rays to remain in the chamber. This immediately yields a second nucleation. a, The nano-SMPS size distribution; b, the ion size distribution as seen by the NAIS ion mode; and c, the monomer (light green) and dimer (dark green) and the number particle concentration for particles bigger than 3.2 nm (purple; CPC 3776). The colour keys on the right side relate to the number size distribution (dN/dlogDp).