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Influence of the Form Factor on Homogeneous Nucleation Kinetics
Author(s) -
Kožíšek Z.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
crystal research and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.377
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1521-4079
pISSN - 0232-1300
DOI - 10.1002/crat.2170260103
Subject(s) - nucleation , homogeneous , kinetics , transient (computer programming) , cluster (spacecraft) , nucleus , volume (thermodynamics) , chemistry , thermodynamics , crystallography , materials science , chemical physics , physics , classical mechanics , computer science , biology , programming language , microbiology and biotechnology , operating system
Abstract Influence of the cluster form on the nucleation rate and the transient time is studied. Relatively small increase of a geometric form factor γ (γ ∼ A n / V 2/3 n , where A n denotes the surface area and V n the volume of the nucleus of n molecules) provokes the massive decrease of the nucleation rate and small increase of the transient time.