Organic ejected, amount

In the past three decades, it has become clear that a rather large amount of surface-active organic material ends up in each tiny droplet ejected into the air by bursting bubbles. Some of these materials may reach concentrations in (or on) the droplets well over a thousand times their bulk concentrations in sea water (ref. 46,85,92). The water in the droplets that remain airborne eventually evaporates, leaving the nonvolatile materials to float around in the atmosphere (ref. 46) and ultimately settle out and, as a result, contribute appreciably to soil nutrients (ref. 93-95). 

Amount of Organic Material Ejected into the Atmosphere. A rough estimate can be made of both the enrichment of organic material on jet drops and film drops and of the total amount of surface-active organic material ejected from sea to air per year. Analysis of collections of sea-salt particles and sea water drops in the atmosphere near Hawaii 4, 96)... 

Small amounts of organic compounds of low ionization potential (see Section 4.2) can be dissolved in liquefied rare gases. The solubility increases from argon to xenon. The scintillation light leads to single photon ionization from which electron/ion pairs originate. The electrons are detected in the usual manner with a charge-sensitive amplifier (see Section 2.10). This way the sensitivity and resolution of rare gas liquid detectors can be improved. Another method uses the scintillation photons to eject electrons from a photocathode (Aprile et al., 1994). 

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