Table T1. Typical output from the Spectrex laser particle counter Supercount software.
Bin
Size
(µm)
Counts
Sample
(%)
Area
(%)
Mass
(%)
ppm
0 274.5 34.6 0.0 0.00 0.0000
1 1 148.1 18.7 2.6 0.48 0.0002
2 2 125.3 15.8 8.7 3.23 0.0014
3 3 105.7 13.3 16.5 9.21 0.0039
4 4 59.4 7.5 16.5 12.26 0.0052
5 5 42.5 5.4 18.5 17.14 0.0072
6 6 18.5 2.3 11.6 12.91 0.0054
7 7 7.1 0.9 6.0 7.84 0.0033
8 8 4.4 0.5 4.8 7.20 0.0030
9 9 2.7 0.3 3.8 6.41 0.0027
10 10 1.6 0.2 2.8 5.27 0.0022
11 11 2.2 0.3 4.6 9.36 0.0039
12 12 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.00 0.0000
13 13 0.5 0.1 1.6 3.86 0.0016
14 14 0.5 0.1 1.9 4.82 0.0020
15 15 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.00 0.0000
16 16 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.00 0.0000
  9999 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.00 0.0000
Total counts: 793      
Total ppm: 0.0422    
Mean: 2.8      
Standard deviation: 1.8      
Dilution: 1      

Notes: The size is the lower limit of each size class. Counts reports of particles <1 µm. The overflow bin (9999) contains counts of particles >17 µm. Parts per million and percent sample, area, and mass are calculated from user-input assumptions.