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THE thermal precipitator1 is widely used as a standard instrument for sampling dust clouds. The dust from a measured volume of air is deposited on glass slides and is afterwards counted under a microscope.
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ROACH, S. Counting Error due to Overlapping Particles in Thermal Precipitator Samples. Nature 182, 134 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182134a0
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