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Natural Sources of Nanoparticles

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This chapter deals with the major natural sources of nanoparticles in the atmosphere: volcanic eruptions, desert surfaces, dust from cosmic sources located in the solar system or outside it. Details are given about the composition of very fine particles according to their type, the successive or parallel chemical transformations that can occur among them or when they meet the major components of the atmosphere (nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide). The authors specify possible ways of evolution from the mineral kingdom to organic substances through nanoparticles originating from cosmic dust, based on suppositions that are provided in the literature of the field and accepted based on physical and chemical computational models.

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  1. Pro Air Clean Ecologic, 37, Vadul Crisului Street, 300613, Timisoara, Romania

    Nicolae Strambeanu

  2. Pro Air Clean Ecologic, Timisoara, Romania

    Laurentiu Demetrovici

  3. Department of Pharmacy, “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania

    Dan Dragos

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  1. Faculty of Physics, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

    Mihai Lungu

  2. Faculty of Physics, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

    Adrian Neculae

  3. Faculty of Physics, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

    Madalin Bunoiu

  4. High Performance Computing Centre, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

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Strambeanu, N., Demetrovici, L., Dragos, D. (2015). Natural Sources of Nanoparticles. In: Lungu, M., Neculae, A., Bunoiu, M., Biris, C. (eds) Nanoparticles' Promises and Risks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11728-7_2

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