scholarly journals MECHANISM OF BORAX CRYSTALLIZATION USING CONDUCTIVITY METHOD

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-330
Author(s):  
Suharso Suharso

The kinetics of crystal growth of borax has been studied by using conductivity method at temperature of 25 °C and at various relative supersaturations. It was found that the growth rate increases with increasing supersaturation. At low concentration, growth occurs via a spiral growth mechanism and at high concentration birth and spread is the principal mechanism operating.     Keywords: borax; growth rate; crystallization; conductivity method

1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 577-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abel Moreno ◽  
Manuel Soriano-García

In attempts to obtain protein crystals of a sufficient size for structural studies, lack of knowledge of the physicochemical properties of protein solutions and of their crystal-growth behaviour lead to a bottleneck for drug design as well as for X-ray crystallography. Most formal investigations on crystal-growth phenomena have been focused on equilibrium studies, where the protein is soluble, and on the kinetics of crystal growth, which is related to both nucleation and crystal-growth phenomena. The aim of this work is to measure the crystal-growth rate along a capillary tube used as a growing cell. These experiments were carried out using the gel-acupuncture technique [García-Ruiz et al. (1993). Mater. Res. Bull. 28, 541–546; García-Ruiz & Moreno (1994). Acta Cryst. D50, 484–490; García-Ruiz & Moreno (1997). J. Cryst. Growth, 178, 393–401]. Crystal-growth investigations took place using lysozyme and thaumatin I as standard proteins. The maximum average growth rate obtained in the lower part of the capillary tube was about 35 Å s−1 and the minimum average growing rate in the upper part of the capillary tube was about 8 Å s−1. The crystal-growth rate as a function of the supersaturation was experimentally estimated at a constant height along the capillary tube.


2006 ◽  
Vol 352 (21-22) ◽  
pp. 2243-2253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Málek ◽  
Daniel Švadlák ◽  
Takefumi Mitsuhashi ◽  
Hajime Haneda

1985 ◽  
Vol 89 (11) ◽  
pp. 2405-2409
Author(s):  
L. Maksimovic ◽  
D. Babic ◽  
N. Kallay

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 767-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sushma S. Gaur ◽  
George H. Nancollas

1990 ◽  
Vol 99 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 116-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Uchida ◽  
F. Sato ◽  
K. Wada

1964 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Nancollas ◽  
N. Purdie

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