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Particles are impacted on sticky-coated tape (adhesive tape) mounted on the leading edge of the rotating arms. 5 mm (1/16 inch) cross section. A typical example might have vertical arms about 60 mm long and 5 76 mm apart (Fig. 3). 3 Whirling arm trap AIR SAMPLING TECHNIQUES 39 Tape is stuck onto the leading edge of the arms and trimmed to size. The tape strips are made sticky with a petroleum jelly/wax or silicone grease coating. After use the tape strips are mounted on microscope slides. Alternative versions exist with detachable transparent acrylic arms that can be examined directly by microscopy.
Prepared arms are placed on the trap only immediately before operation. g. in a clean laboratory) by placing clear adhesive tape onto the leading edge of each arm (right arm forward facing and left arm rearward facing). The tape is then trimmed back using a scalpel or razor blade so that its width and length is the same as that of the arm itself (Fig. 7a). g. paraffin wax and petroleum jelly (Vaseline) dissolved in hexane. g. plant label) dipped into the wax suspension and wiped along the tape surface (Fig.
The mechanism of splash was studied initially in the laboratory under simple conditions with water drops falling from known heights on to thin films of a suspension of conidia of Fusarium solani spread on horizontal glass slides. 1 mm deep produced over 5200 splash droplets of which over 2000 carried one or more spores. The number of droplets deposited per unit area on a horizontal plane decreased rapidly with increasing distance from the point of impact, and in still air few droplets travelled beyond 70 cm.