“…Since its inception in 1961, the cube root law developed on either side of the iron curtain by Lifshitz, Slyozov [13] and Wagner [29] (LSW) to quantitatively describe the phenomenon of spherical particle coarsening (Ostwald ripening), has been successfully applied to several systems [9]. Furthermore, using an adaptation defined by Boyd et al [2] a decade later,particles such as c 00 (Ni 3 Nb-D0 22 ) in Ni-base alloys [4,7,8,11,23,28,30,31].…”