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HICKLING1 has proposed that nucleation by cavitation in an undercooled liquid which expands on freezing is caused by adiabatic compression into a region where a high pressure phase is stable: the high pressure phase nucleates and later transforms to the stable low pressure phase. Originally, his arguments were intended to explain only the results on water, but were later extended to include other materials which expand on freezing2, although no such observations were available.
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HUNT, J., JACKSON, K. Nucleation of the Solid Phase by Cavitation in an Undercooled Liquid which expands on Freezing. Nature 211, 1080–1081 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111080b0
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