Studies on nucleation phenomena occurring in aqueous solutions supersaturated with calcium sulfate. II. The induction time

Autor: Douglas Martin Keller, O. E. Hileman, Ronald E. Massey
Rok vydání: 1978
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Zdroj: Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 56:3096-3103
ISSN: 1480-3291
0008-4042
DOI: 10.1139/v78-506
Popis: The results of a set of experiments designed to delineate the effects of changes in temperature and supersaturation levels on the length of the time interval between establishing those levels and the detection of a steady-state nucleation rate of CaSO4•2H2O from solution are reported. The data were obtained using the droplet technique coupled with insitu generation of SO42− at such a rate that the system experienced a near step function change in the driving force with time. A theoretical model for the length of the time interval is derived and compared with the data. Empirical modeling studies led to a rather different functional relationship that is compared with a theoretical model discussed in the literature by Frisch and Carlier. The functional form of an equation relating together the lag time and the subsequent nucleation rate exhibited by a given system is proposed.
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