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Homogeneous nucleation of liquid from the vapor phase in an expansion cloud chamber

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A Wilson expansion cloud chamber has been used to measure the homogeneous vapor-to-liquid nucleation of several materials over the past decade. These data, representing nucleation rate as a function of temperature and supersaturation ratio for toluene, nonane, and water measured in our center, have been re-examined and are presented both in graphical form and as a table of selected data points. The latter is included for ease of comparison with theory. Measurements of the binary homogeneous nucleation of ethanol-water (E-W) mixtures are also presented. The expansion chamber experimental technique and data reduction technique are discussed.

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  1. Department of Physics and Graduate Center for Cloud Physics Research, University of Missouri-Rolla, 65401, Rolla, MO

    John L. Schmitt (Associate Professor and Senior Investigator)

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This paper is based on a presentation made in the “G. Marshall Pound Memorial Symposium on the Kinetics of Phase Transformations” presented as part of the 1990 fall meeting of TMS, October 8–12, 1990, in Detroit, MI, under the auspices of the ASM/MSD Phase Transformations Committee.

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Schmitt, J.L. Homogeneous nucleation of liquid from the vapor phase in an expansion cloud chamber. Metall Trans A 23, 1957–1961 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02647543

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