The Air-O-Cell operates on the well established principle of inertial impaction. Particles in the air stream are accelerated as they approach the tapered inlet opening and drawn through a small slit aimed directly at a glass slide. This glass slide contains a sticky and optically clear sampling media which can permanently collect and hold particles. As the particles come through the slit, the air velocity forces the particles to impact into the sampling media, while the air stream makes a sharp 90o turn and proceeds around the slide and out of the cassette. The air flow path through the Air-O-Cell cassette is illustrated below in Figure 1.
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