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THE following function has been found useful in problems involving the sedimentation or transport of air-borne bacteria-carrying dusts in inhabited rooms. where S is the settling-rate of a particle in still air (proportional to the square of the diameter (d) for spheres obeying Stokes's law), Ys is the frequency of occurrence of particles with settling-rate S, C is a normalizing coefficient ( for a total of 100 particles) and n and a are constants
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Lapple, C. E., Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning, 18, 113 (1946).
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LIDWELL, O. A Particle-Size Distribution Function for Air-Borne Dusts. Nature 158, 61–62 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158061b0
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