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Heterogeneous Nucleation

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Heterogeneous nucleation is a first order phase transition in which molecules of the parent phase nucleate onto surfaces forming embryos of the new phase. These preexisting foreign particles are usually called condensation nuclei (CN). To discriminate between the cluster and condensation nuclei, we call CN “solid”, the cluster phase “liquid” and the parent phase “vapor”.

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    Note, that a possibility of a negative tension of the three-phase contact line was already mentioned by Gibbs [18].

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    Note, that if in (15.52) the bulk Fletcher factor \(q(m_\mathrm{{eq}})\) is used instead of \(q(m_t)\), the critical cluster size, maximizing \(\varDelta G\), would violate the Kelvin equation.

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Kalikmanov, V.I. (2013). Heterogeneous Nucleation. In: Nucleation Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 860. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3643-8_15

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