“…Due to its simplicity and frequent application (Cruz and Pandis, 2000;Dick et al, 2000;Chan, 2002a, 2002b;Prenni et al, 2003;Wise et al, 2003;Clegg et al, 2003;Clegg and Seinfeld, 2004Khlystov et al, 2005;Rissler et al, 2005;Aklilu et al, 2006;Svenningsson et al, 2006;Varutbangkul et al, 2006;Gysel et al, 2007;Sjogren et al, 2007;Dinar et al, 2008), the Zdanovskii-Stokes Robinson (ZSR) (Zdanovskii, 1948;Stokes and Robinson, 1966) mixing rule is employed to predict hygroscopic growth factors. This procedure of estimating hygroscopic growth based on specified composition is based on the assumption that water uptake by each individual component of a particle is independent and additive.…”