Particle counters
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A particle counter is a sophisticated monitoring instrument that counts the amount of particulate contamination. Modern particle counters detect contaminants from the air, a surface or a liquid. Some examples of these particles can be anything from oil, metal shavings, dust, smoke, ash, mold, or other biological contaminants. This information is very useful to professionals for determining how pure the air is for breathing, water treatment, producing food & drugs or microchips in a cleanroom.
A particle counter can be as simple as a handheld air monitoring instrument or become as advanced as remote or multiplex manifold sequencing clean room systems used for entire facility monitoring. Depending on the model type, particle counters can detect as small as 0.1 microns. Nano particle counters are being developed to count even smaller particles.
