Use of enantiomeric properties of sodium chlorate to assess primary and secondary nucleation under sonication.

ABSTRACT: Ultrasound is known to promote crystal nucleation, but despite significant research there remains uncertainty about how the mechanisms are affected. Despite the proposal of various primary nucleation theories, most studies provide no way to quantify or observe the extent to which primary nucleation is taking place, leaving open the possibility that sonocrystallisation is occurring by a secondary nucleation-driven mechanism. By utilising the widely reported enantiomeric properties of sodium chlorate, the extent to which ultrasound can induce primary nucleation can clearly be observed. It was demonstrated during seeded cooling crystallisation that when stirring the seed similarity was 99.3% on average, indicating secondary nucleation had almost exclusively taken place. The application of ult

SUBMITTER: Copithorne-Crainey CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8482043 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature