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Kinetic Evidence for Nucleus Cluster Formation in Solid Decompositions

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OVERALL topokinetic equations can be extended to take account of time-dependent nucleation functions other than the random law modified by ingestion1,2; but no analytic treatment of non-random spatial arrangements of nucleation sites has appeared. Apart from photo-micrographs of partially decomposed barium azide showing barium nuclei in clusters and arrays3,4, and some single crystal investigations5, there is little published evidence of the need for such a theoretical extension. However, recent kinetic evidence has suggested the existence of non-random arrangements of two kinds.

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YOUNG, D. Kinetic Evidence for Nucleus Cluster Formation in Solid Decompositions. Nature 204, 281–282 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204281b0

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