Delayed rapid crystallization mechanism

A mechanism for oiling out can be postulated as follows When supersaturation is achieved rapidly such that the concentration is beyond the upper metastable limit—as can often be the case in a nucleation-based process—the substrate is forced to separate into a second phase by the creation of the resulting high solution concentration. However, crystallization is delayed by a slow crystallization rate. This combination may result in the creation of a nonstructured oil or possibly an amoiphous solid. The rates of phase separation and nucleation are relative to each other such that slow nucleation implies only that nucleation was not fast enough to create discrete particles before oil separation. 

---