Crystallization is the phase transition of matter from the state of a supercooled or supersaturated mother medium to a crystalline state with lower energy. Excess energy is evolved during crystallization in the form of the latent heat of crystallization.
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Crystallization ceases with the exhaustion of the substance or with the attainment of equilibrium temperature, concentration, and pressure. Crystallization nuclei. A supercooled medium may remain in a metastable state for a long time without crystallizing.
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1 From X to Y, Fo continues to crystallize and the liquid moves along the path, represented by the red line, constantly changing composition. 2  At Y, which lies on the boundary curve between the fields of En + L and Fo +L.
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In chemical engineering crystallization occurs in a crystallizer. Crystallization is therefore an aspect of precipitation, obtained through a variation of the solubility conditions of the solute in the solvent, as compared to precipitation due to chemical reaction.
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Crystallization. The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapor, or a different solid phase. Crystallization from solution is an important industrial operation because of the large number of materials marketed as crystalline particles.
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For crystallization (see also recrystallization) to occur from a solution it must be supersaturated. This means that the solution has to contain more solute entities (molecules or ions) dissolved than it would contain under the equilibrium (saturated solution).
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For equilbrium crystallization the final product must have the same bulk composition as the initial starting composition. Point X also lies in the small triangle Fo-En-An, therefore the final solid must be a mixture of the three phase that define this small triangle.
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Point X. The bulk composition of X can be determined by drawing three lines (the magenta lines) through X, parallel to each side of the large triangle Fo-An-Si. Using this method we get a compostions of 70% Fo, 18% Si and 12% An.
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1 At the liquidus Fo begins to crystallize and the Fo is in equilibrium with liquid. 2  The liquid composition moves directly away from Fo, as it is being depleted in Fo. 3  From X to Y, Fo continues to crystallize and the liquid moves along the path, represented by the red line, constantly changing composition.
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1 Fo continues to be resorbed, En crystallizes and both of these are in equilibrium with the liquid, the composition of which is moving down the boundary curve from Y to Q. 2  At Q. 3  Point Q lies along the cotectic curve separating the En + L field from the Fo + L field.
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define: equilibrium crystallization
Crystallization ceases with the exhaustion of the substance or with the attainment of equilibrium temperature, concentration, and pressure is called equilibrium crystallization.