Pius,
The situation you describe is an off-equilibrium situation. You have
applied a perturbation
and that may not be reversible!
Enrico.
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:35:56 +0100, Pius Padayatti
wrote:
Hi Enricho,
The scenario of streak seeding follows Ostwald ripening but will
this happen
Hi Enricho,
The scenario of streak seeding follows Ostwald ripening but will
this happen in other situations as follows
But in a special case where you have some crystals that appear as large
rods which dissolved when taken out of the incubator (or) during the
observation( these were antibody-comp
On 02/08/12 06:49, Enrico Stura wrote:
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:08:23 +0100, Theresa H. Hsu
wrote:
A little off from the original question. Why don't small crystals
dissolve to make a bigger crystal, especially when the small ones
grow on top of each other?
Sometimes they do. Key phrase
Theresa,
A little off from the original question.
You should have started a new thread.
The answer to your question is very simple. Small crystals will dissolve
when the degree of saturation
of the solution becomes too low to support their relatively high surface
to volume ratio.
The larg
