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Sublimation in Outdoor Air

Nature volume 160, page 198 (1947)Cite this article

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In a previous communication1, experiments were described on the sublimation of water vapour in a Wilson chamber. It was found that in clean air sublimation commences only at temperatures below – 41.2° ± 0.05° C., whereas in outdoor air at Oxford this threshold temperature is 9° C. higher.

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  1. Nature, 155, 361 (1945).

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    B. M. CWILONG

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CWILONG, B. Sublimation in Outdoor Air. Nature 160, 198 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160198b0

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