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Explosive Crystallization of Amorphous Substances with Fixed Crystallites

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Growth of Crystals

Part of the book series: Growth of Crystals ((GROC,volume 17))

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The solid amorphous state arising during the highly nonequilibrium processes in a rapidly cooling liquid melt or vapor is metastable. It can relax to a stable crystalline state. In the overwhelming majority of cases, this relaxation is accompanied by release of heat and a change of specific volume, i.e., it is a first-order phase transition. However, it occurs far from conditions of phase equilibrium and includes mechanisms of crystal generation and growth. The kinetics of such a transformation have features in common with other cases of metastable phase decomposition and can be analyzed on the basis of the approach formulated by Volmer [1].

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Koverda, V.P., Boganov, N.M., Skripov, V.P. (1991). Explosive Crystallization of Amorphous Substances with Fixed Crystallites. In: Givargizov, E.I., Grinberg, S.A. (eds) Growth of Crystals. Growth of Crystals, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3660-4_7

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