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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">EGUsphere</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">EGUsphere</abbrev-journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-6574</article-id>
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<article-title>Online Measurements Reveal Contrasting Particle-Bound Reactive Oxygen Species and Chemical Composition in Emissions from Six Residential Solid Fuels</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lei</surname>
<given-names>Lu</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1899-9580</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Shan</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Enarsson</surname>
<given-names>Jonas</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhao</surname>
<given-names>Jian</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4894-9587</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nganga</surname>
<given-names>David</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Ying</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Smith</surname>
<given-names>William</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fossum</surname>
<given-names>Kirsten N.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wierzbicka</surname>
<given-names>Aneta</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Eriksson</surname>
<given-names>Axel</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lin</surname>
<given-names>Chunshui</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3175-6778</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ceburnis</surname>
<given-names>Darius</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wenger</surname>
<given-names>John</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4109-976X</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hellebust</surname>
<given-names>Stig</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>O’Dowd</surname>
<given-names>Colin</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ovadnevaite</surname>
<given-names>Jurgita</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7201-0118</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>The Ryan Institute Centre for Climate &amp; Air Pollution Studies, School of Natural Sciences, Physics, University of Galway, Galway, H91 CF50, Ireland</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00014, Finland</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Chemistry and Physics, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, 710061, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>School of Chemistry and Sustainability Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>06</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>23</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Lu Lei et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<abstract>
<p>Residential solid fuel combustion is an important source of atmospheric particulate matter (PM), yet source-dependent characteristics in particle-bound reactive oxygen species (ROS) and their chemical drivers remain poorly constrained. Here, we combined online ROS measurements using a Particle Into Nitroxide Quencher with high-resolution aerosol mass spectrometry to systematically characterize real-time emissions from six residential solid fuels under realistic residential burning conditions. Distinct fuel-dependent chemical signatures were identified: wood-based fuels showed high contributions from oxygen-containing organic ions (O/C = 0.61&amp;ndash;0.63), whereas manufactured coals were dominated by hydrocarbon-rich fragments and stronger polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-related signatures (5&amp;ndash;7 % of OA). Importantly, these PAH-related ions were strongly associated with mass-normalized ROS (ROS&lt;sub&gt;m&lt;/sub&gt;) across the six fuels (r&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; = 0.98 for burn-averaged data), while weaker positive time-resolved correlations suggested additional influences from particle chemistry and combustion conditions. Consistently, manufactured coals exhibited substantially higher ROS&lt;sub&gt;m&lt;/sub&gt; than wood-based fuels and peat (2.2&amp;ndash;2.9 vs. 0.2&amp;ndash;0.6 pmol BPEAnit-Me equivalents &amp;micro;g&lt;sup&gt;-1&lt;/sup&gt;), together with greater within-burn variability. However, air-volume-normalized ROS (ROS&lt;sub&gt;v&lt;/sub&gt;) revealed contrasting pathways to elevated ROS burden: coals exhibited the highest ROS&lt;sub&gt;v&lt;/sub&gt; (140.1&amp;ndash;305.4 pmol m&lt;sup&gt;-3&lt;/sup&gt;) driven by their high intrinsic ROS activity, whereas peat reached similarly elevated levels (107.5 pmol m&lt;sup&gt;-3&lt;/sup&gt;) primarily because of its high PM loading. Overall, by linking real-time particle-bound ROS with aerosol chemistry across six solid fuels, this study reveals distinct chemical and mass-loading contributions to ROS burdens, providing a basis for interpreting source-dependent oxidative characteristics of atmospheric combustion aerosols.</p>
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<funding-source>Research Ireland</funding-source>
<award-id>22/FFP-A/10611</award-id>
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<funding-source>Directorate-General for Climate Action</funding-source>
<award-id>No.42577115</award-id>
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<funding-source>Research Council of Finland</funding-source>
<award-id>no. 1363283</award-id>
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