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词条 Critical radius
释义

  1. See also

  2. References

Critical radius is the minimum size that must be formed by atoms or molecules clustering together (in a gas, liquid or solid matrix) before a new-phase inclusion (a bubble, a droplet, or a solid particle) is stable and begins to grow. Formation of such stable "nuclei" is called nucleation.

In precipitation models this is generally a prelude to models of the growth process itself. Sometimes precipitation is rate-limited by the nucleation process. This happens for example before one takes a cup of superheated water from a microwave and, when jiggling it against dust particles on the wall of the cup, enables "heterogeneous" nucleation that then rapidly converts much of that water into steam.

If the change in phase forms a crystalline solid in a liquid matrix, the atoms might then form a dendrite. The crystal growth continues in three dimensions, the atoms attaching themselves in certain preferred directions, usually along the axes of a crystal, forming a characteristic tree-like structure of a dendrite.

Example: the critical radius for spherical dendrite in an ideal system can be determined from its Gibbs free energy[1]

where is the Gibbs volume energy and is the interfacial energy. The critical radius is found by setting the derivative of equal to zero

yielding

,

where is the surface energy, and is Gibbs energy per volume.

See also

  • Nucleation
  • Homogeneous nucleation
  • Heterogeneous nucleation
  • Ostwald ripening

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://community.dur.ac.uk/sharon.cooper/lectures/cryskinetics/handoutsalla.html|title=Crystallization Kinetics|accessdate=16 August 2018}}
  • N.H.Fletcher, Size Effect in Heterogeneous Nucleation, J.Chem.Phys.29, 1958, 572.
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