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A device for the production of small bubbles in seawater 1
Author(s) -
Johnson Bruce D.,
Gershey Robert M.,
Cooke Robert C.,
Sutcliffe William H.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1982.27.2.0369
Subject(s) - bursting , bubble , mechanics , particle (ecology) , aerosol , flow (mathematics) , frit , environmental science , materials science , physics , meteorology , geology , metallurgy , oceanography , biology , neuroscience
The failure to consider the effect of small bubbles in many studies of particle scavenging by rising bubbles and of aerosol formation from bursting bubbles has been due primarily to the lack of a method for producing them. An apparatus constructed so that bubbles emerging from a frit are sheared by water flow restricted to a narrow channel produces bubble populations typically having mean radii <100 µ m.