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A Short-Cut Method for the Quantification of Crystallization Kinetics. 1. Method Development

“…One work describes the experimental setup and data processing to calculate nucleation and growth rates during seeded cooling crystallizations at fixed supersaturation . In that work, laser diffraction was applied to investigate the solid phase that can lead to errors when the crystal shape differs significantly from perfect spheres since reflections of faceted particles and the orientation of crystals influence the result significantly. , Furthermore, the mean length of the whole CSD was taken as an indicator for the growth of the particles . This eventually obscures the real growth rate, in particular if nucleation occurs.…”