AAAR 33rd Annual Conference
October 20 - October 24, 2014
Rosen Shingle Creek
Orlando, Florida, USA
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Surface Freezing of n-alkanes
VIRAJ MODAK, Mitchell Thayer, Barbara Wyslouzil, Sherwin Singer, The Ohio State University
Abstract Number: 478 Working Group: Aerosol Physics
Abstract Crystallization is a common physical process encountered in the chemical industry as well as in natural environments. For liquids with free surfaces, whether the nucleation event occurs at the surface or in the bulk, has been a subject of controversy, especially in the atmospheric science community. For straight chain n-alkanes, however, there is experimental evidence to suggest surface freezing occurs. This phenomenon was first observed for intermediate chain length alkanes (15