Abstract
The statistics of liquid-to-crystal nucleation are studied using an automated lag-time apparatus. A single 500 μL sample of distilled water is repeatedly supercooled to a fixed temperature below its equilibrium freezing temperature, held until freezing occurred, and then thawed. Our raw data is then a set of approximately 300 lag-times for each of three set supercooling temperatures. In each case, a small insoluble AgI crystal was added to ensure heterogeneous nucleation and average nucleation temperatures around ΔT=8 K. The distribution of lag-times is analyzed, and shown to be well approximated by a single exponential decay, with average lag-times in the range of 1000–3000 seconds. This average lag-time decreases markedly at deeper levels of supercooling, and for the present data, this decrease is fit equally well by exponential, power law decay, and classical nucleation functional forms.
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Created | 23 years ago (July 26, 2002, 8:45 a.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 6 months ago (Feb. 7, 2024, 1:23 p.m.) |
Indexed | 3 weeks, 5 days ago (July 30, 2025, 9:55 a.m.) |
Issued | 23 years, 10 months ago (Oct. 22, 2001) |
Published | 23 years, 10 months ago (Oct. 22, 2001) |
Published Print | 23 years, 10 months ago (Oct. 22, 2001) |
@article{Heneghan_2001, title={Liquid-to-crystal nucleation: Automated lag-time apparatus to study supercooled liquids}, volume={115}, ISSN={1089-7690}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1407290}, DOI={10.1063/1.1407290}, number={16}, journal={The Journal of Chemical Physics}, publisher={AIP Publishing}, author={Heneghan, A. F. and Wilson, P. W. and Wang, Genmiao and Haymet, A. D. J.}, year={2001}, month=oct, pages={7599–7608} }