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The composition of precipitation at Lerwick, Shetland

✍ Scribed by B. C. V. Oddie

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1959
Tongue
English
Weight
184 KB
Volume
85
Category
Article
ISSN
0035-9009

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

It is shown that most of the salts deposited at Lerwick arrive as sea‐spray rather than in true precipitation. Mg, K and Na are present in very nearly the same proportions as in sea water: but there is a very great deficiency of chlorine, which, it is argued, can only be explained on Cauer's hypothesis that NaCl in aerosol form is dissociated and that Cl or HCl is released.

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