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Condensation of Water in the Atmosphere

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IN NATURE of December 16, p. 938, it is stated: “A number of workers, notably Defant, Kohler,: Niederdorfer, claim to have shown that the volume of droplets in the atmosphere are most frequently integral multiples of some standard minimum size”. The “law” claimed by Defant and Köhler is much more interesting than this statement implies.

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  1. NATURE, 119, 654, April 30, 1927

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GOLD, E. Condensation of Water in the Atmosphere. Nature 133, 102 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133102a0

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