Nucleus Shape of Minimum Energy

The energy of the critical nucleus is now found by minimizing AQ with respect to a and . The first minimization produces the results 

Equation 19.31 may be divided by the expression A 7(1) = 167T73/[3(AgB)2], which is the form Eq. 19.31 would assume if the cluster were a sphere ( = 1) and the strain energy were zero. Therefore, 

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