Processes occurring inside the
spray chamber or desolvation system responsible for the modification of the
primary aerosol to finally yield the tertiary aerosol.
Note:
These phenomena include solvent evaporation, droplet coalescence or coagulation, inertial droplet losses, gravitational settling and turbulence losses.
Source:
PAC, 2021, 93, 647. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in analytical spectroscopy (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)' on page 712 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0203)