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Although sulphur is the most common element in the Antarctic aerosol, no more than 6% of the sulphate can be of direct marine origin1. Cadle et al.2 and Bigg3 found much of the aerosol in the Antarctic to be a complex, partially neutralized, acid sulphate, although essentially ‘pure’ H2SO4 and (NH4)2SO4 particles were common. Efforts to analyse size-segregated aerosol samples chemically have been generally unsuccessful. There is, therefore, a question of the origin of the sulphate component of the Antarctic aerosol. I consider here the contributions that Antarctic volcanic activity may make to the sulphate content of the Antarctic aerosol.
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Radke, L. Sulphur and sulphate from Mt Erebus. Nature 299, 710–712 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/299710a0
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