“…Because the volume and surface area of a sphere are readily determined from a single characteristic length, the dimension supplied from Mie scattering theory (e.g., Penner et al, 19841, an imaging technique using apertures (Tichenor et al, 1984;Wang and Tichenor, 1981;Waters et al, 1988), or photographs and shadowgraphs (Young et al, 1988;McLean et al, 1981) fits neatly with and, indeed, is presupposed, by the sphere assumption. It is, however, generally recognized that such an assumption has limited applicability and is not an accurate description of general particle shape.…”