A small liquid particle. The size of droplets encountered in the atmosphere extends
over a wide range; e.g. liquid
aerosol solutions which make up the fine particle fraction of continental tropospheric
aerosol are usually
in diameter. Cloud water droplets usually have diameters in the range of
-
,
while rain droplets commonly have diameters ranging from
-
.
Source:
PAC, 1990, 62, 2167
(Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990))
on page 2185
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
