NUCLEATION LABORATORY
REVIEW OF VAPOR TO LIQUID HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION EXPERIMENTS FROM 1968 TO 1992
J.
Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 23, 781 (1994)
Richard
H. Heist and Honghai He
RESEARCH
SUMMARY
The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of the
nucleation literature that deals with experimental measurements of vapor to
liquid nucleation. Since the amount
of experimental data in the literature is large and since the manner in which it
is presented varies significantly, we shall present, in tabular form, a
condensed summary of the experimental data obtained in each investigation along
with the conditions under which the data were obtained and the appropriate
literature references.
Our primary objective in preparing this review is to provide a current
resource enabling interested individuals to learn quickly:
(1) what vapor to liquid nucleation experiments have been done; (2) what
substances have been investigated; (3) what experimental tools have been used;
(4) what type of experimental data has been generated over what ranges of
conditions; and, (5) where to find detailed information about the specific
nucleation experiments.
We review that scientific literature from 1968 to 1992 which deals with:
critical supersaturation measurements in both unary and binary systems;
nucleation rate measurements in both unary and binary systems;
photoinduced nucleation experiments;
ion-induced nucleation
experiments.
In our review we include critical supersaturation measurements (or, more
generally, the conditions accompanying the onset of nucleation) for unary and
binary systems. This in itself is
significant since it will be the first time a comprehensive review of binary
nucleation has appeared in the literature.
We expand the review by including data from nucleation rate experiments
in both unary and binary systems. This
is the first time a comprehensive review of nucleation rate data has appeared in
the literature. We also include a
detailed review of the photoinduced nucleation and ion-induced nucleation
literature.
Finally, we note that the last major review of the nucleation experiment
literature was published by Pound in 1972.
Smaller summaries of experimental methods and selected data have appeared
in the literature from time to time, but a comprehensive review of the
nucleation experiment literature covering the period from 1968 to 1992 does not
exist.
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