Taylor does think the new technique holds great promise for the future, because of its ability to
identify types of particle and the fact that it can operate day or night in any weather (optical techniques of observing air showers only work on clear moonless nights).
During storms, they flew a research aircraft with several powerful instruments, including one that can
identify the type of particle in a cloud and determine whether it was dust or some other type of aerosol.
Not exact matches
Using DNA strands just 58 nucleotides long to uniquely
identify each
particle allows researchers to skip the cell culture screening altogether — and test a hundred or more different
types of nanoparticles simultaneously in just a handful
of animals.
Researchers noted that this important step in sleuthing the shapes and locations
of filaments should also be useful for focused studies that seek to
identify what
types of gases inhabit the filaments, the temperatures
of these gases, and the mechanisms for how
particles enter and move around in the filaments.
Typical temperature - supersaturation regions can be
identified for the «onset»
of ice nucleation
of these different
particle types, but the various
particle sizes and activated fractions reported in different studies have to be taken into account when comparing results obtained with different methodologies.
As explained by Asphalt Magazine, this is a
type of pavement distress
identified as the wearing away
of aggregate
particles from the asphalt cement.