Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 344 pages
- Published by: John Wiley & Sons Inc. January 1992
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0471931098
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471931096
Publisher Description
Provides an understanding of both basic and more advanced principles and concepts of crystal growth using a direct style of exposition succeeded by systematic and comprehensible applications of these in the actual crystallization of Groups 1 and 2 compounds from solution in melts at high temperatures. Explores final crystal numbers and sizes, systematic quantitative experimental studies on solute and solvent interactions, nucleation processes and crystallization kinetics. A mathematical model for calculating diffusion coefficients and, from there, kinetic and thermodynamic parameters for diffusion-controlled crystal growth that can accurately predict the exact distance of separation between a diffusing particle and its hosts in melts are presented.