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Particle size distribution (Granulometry)

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Granulometry (Woolery, 2009):

D10 = 94.5 µm

D50 = 266.5 µm

D90 = 591.9 µm

Dustiness (Parr & Grewe, 2010)

Total dustiness (airborne fraction): 196.43 mg/g

Mass median aerodynamic diameters (bi-modal distribution) of airborne fraction: MMAD1 = 12.7 µm (15.6 %), MMAD2 = 34.76 µm (84.4 %)

(distribution fitted to cascade impactor data, percentage in parentheses indicates weighting factor).

Geometric standard deviation of MMAD: GSD1 = 3.04, GSD2 = 1.62

Fractional deposition in human respiratory tract (MPPD model, based on calculated MMAD):

Head (ET): 41.7 %

Tracheobronchial (TB): 0.2 %

Pulmonary (PU): 0.4 %