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The formation of colloidal gold particles of diameter less than 10 nm has been achieved by the irradiation of aqueous HAuCl4 solutions with 20 kHz ultrasound; the particle size and efficiency of particle formation is highly dependent on the presence of alcohol, its type and concentration, in the solutions.
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Yeung et al. (1993) studied this question.
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