Articles | Volume 16, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8915-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8915-2016
Review article
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19 Jul 2016
Review article |  | 19 Jul 2016

Ice nucleation efficiency of AgI: review and new insights

Claudia Marcolli, Baban Nagare, André Welti, and Ulrike Lohmann

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