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Profiling Suspensions in Natural Water by a Simplified Dynamic Light Scattering Procedure and Sedimentation

Dan ChiceaLiana-maria Chicea

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0106 biological sciencesMaterials scienceAqueous solutionEcologyAverage diameterScattering010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyNatural waterMineralogy010501 environmental sciences01 natural sciencescoherent light scatteringDynamic light scatteringsuspensionsnatural waterdynamic light scattering (dls)QH540-549.50105 earth and related environmental sciences

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Abstract A coherent light scattering experiment was carried out. The samples were aqueous natural water suspensions picked from the same river. While sedimentation occurred in the samples, they were subjected to a dynamic light scattering (DLS) experiment and the time series was recorded at certain time intervals. For each recording, a program written for this purpose, performing at least square minimisation, computed the average diameter of the particles in suspension. The variation of the average diameter in time indicates the dominant type of suspensions in water.

https://doi.org/10.1515/trser-2015-0059