Material Fine-grained spherical particles of salty H2O ice (5 µm average diameter, 10 wt.% NaCl, e). Before electron irradiation. | SSHADE

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Material

Name: Fine-grained spherical particles of salty H2O ice (5 µm average diameter, 10 wt.% NaCl, e). Before electron irradiation.

Family: solid
Origin: laboratory

Abundance in layer

Relevance: main - major
Mass fraction: 1.0

Texture

compact

Grain density

0.92

$\pm$ 0.01

$g.cm^{-3}$

Grain sizes

Grains	Size min	Size max	Size median	Size width	Size mass fraction	Grain shape
#1	0.0 ${\mu}m$	1.0 ${\mu}m$			0.01	spherical
#2	1.0 ${\mu}m$	2.0 ${\mu}m$			0.1	spherical
#3	2.0 ${\mu}m$	3.0 ${\mu}m$			0.14	spherical
#4	3.0 ${\mu}m$	4.0 ${\mu}m$			0.23	spherical
#5	4.0 ${\mu}m$	5.0 ${\mu}m$			0.22	spherical
#6	5.0 ${\mu}m$	6.0 ${\mu}m$			0.08	spherical
#7	6.0 ${\mu}m$	7.0 ${\mu}m$			0.08	spherical
#8	7.0 ${\mu}m$	8.0 ${\mu}m$			0.04	spherical
#9	8.0 ${\mu}m$	9.0 ${\mu}m$			0.03	spherical
#10	9.0 ${\mu}m$	10.0 ${\mu}m$			0.01	spherical
#11	10.0 ${\mu}m$	11.0 ${\mu}m$			0.02	spherical
#12	11.0 ${\mu}m$	12.0 ${\mu}m$			0.02	spherical
#13	12.0 ${\mu}m$	20.0 ${\mu}m$			0.03	spherical

Size method

Manual counting on cryo-Scanning Electron Microscopy images of fresh ice particles

Constituents in material

Number: 2
Arrangement: grains with inclusions

	Name	Compound type	Arrangement	Mass ( $g$ )	Mass fraction	Adsorbat name
	water ice	inorganic molecular solid	matrix		90.0 $\pm$ 0.1
	NaCl hydrate	chloride	inclusion		10.0 $\pm$ 0.1