Ostwald systems

Deviations of liquids from Newtonian behavior are frequently observed for pharmaceutical and biomedical systems. In these, the relationship between stress and the rate of strain is nonlinear, examples of which include pseudoplastic (shear thinning), dilatant (shear thickening), plastic, and Bingham and Ostwald systems (1,17). Such systems are commonly referred to as non-Newtonian systems. 

Color order systems n. Systems used to describe an orderly three-dimensional arrangement of colors. Three bases can be used for ordering colors (1) an appearance basis, i.e., a psychological basis in terms of hue, saturation, and lightness - an example is the Munsell System (2) an orderly additive color mixture basis, i.e., a psychophysical basis - examples are the CIE System and the Ostwald System and (3) an orderly subtractive color mixture basis - an example is the Plochere Color System, based on an orderly mixture of inks. 

E. Jacobson, Basic Color. An Interpretation of the Ostwald Color System, P. Theobald, Chicago, lU., 1948. 

During precipitate ageing, a gradual transformation of an initially precipitated metastable phase into a final crystalline form often occurs. The metastable phase may be an amorphous precipitate, a polymorph of the final material, a hydrated species or some system-contaminated substance (Mullin, 2001). In 1896, Ostwald promulgated his rule of stages which states that an unstable... 

Modern experiment has proved beyond doubt that the so-called colloidal solutions are systems composed of two or more phases, i.c., heterogeneous, characterised by an enormously great extent of division, in which the surface of contact has, so to speak, been spread out throughout the whole mass. Capillary phenomena are therefore predominant here (cf. Ostwald, Kolloidchemic, Leipzig, 1909 Freundlich, Kapillarchemie, Leipzig, 1909). 

At large size the cubic bulk term finally dominates and suggests that the system would still grow without bound if particles could pass the modified critical size >(, this is Ostwald ripening. 

Based on the reversibility of their phase transformation behavior, polymorphs can easily be classified as being either enantiotropic (interchange reversibly with temperature) or monotropic (irreversible phase transformation). Enantiotropic polymorphs are each characterized by phase stability over well-defined temperature ranges. In the monotropic system, one polymorph will be stable at all temperatures, and the other is only metastable. Ostwald formulated the rule of successive reactions, which states that the phase that will crystallize out of a melt will be the state that can be reached with the minimum loss of free... 

Ostwald s step rule holds that a thermodynamically unstable mineral reacts over time to form a sequence of progressively more stable minerals (e.g., Morse and Casey, 1988 Steefel and Van Cappellen, 1990 Nordeng and Sibley, 1994). The step rule is observed to operate, especially at low temperature, in a number of min-eralogic systems, including the carbonates, silica polymorphs, iron and manganese oxides, iron sulfides, phosphates, clay minerals, and zeolites. 

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The "classical" theory of nucleation concentrates primarily on calculating the nucleation free energy barrier, AG. Chemical interactions are included under the form of thermodynamic quantities, such as the surface tension. A link with chemistry is made by relating the surface tension to the solubility which provides a kinetic explanation of the Ostwald Step Rule and the often observed disequilibrium conditions in natural systems. Can the chemical model be complemented and expanded by considering specific chemical interactions (surface complex formation) of the components of the cluster with the surface ... 

Metastable crystalline phases frequently crystallise to a more stable phase in accordance with Ostwald s rule of stages, and the more common types of phase transformation that occur in crystallising and precipitating systems include those between polymorphs and solvates. Transformations can occur in the solid state, particularly at temperatures near the melting point of the crystalline solid, and because of the intervention of a solvent. A stable phase has a lower solubility than a metastable phase, as indicated by the solubility curves in Figures 15.7a and 15.7/ for enantiotropic and monotropic systems respectively and,... 

An analogy may be drawn between the phase behavior of weakly attractive monodisperse dispersions and that of conventional molecular systems provided coalescence and Ostwald ripening do not occur. The similarity arises from the common form of the pair potential, whose dominant feature in both cases is the presence of a shallow minimum. The equilibrium statistical mechanics of such systems have been extensively explored. As previously explained, the primary difficulty in predicting equilibrium phase behavior lies in the many-body interactions intrinsic to any condensed phase. Fortunately, the synthesis of several methods (integral equation approaches, perturbation theories, virial expansions, and computer simulations) now provides accurate predictions of thermodynamic properties and phase behavior of dense molecular fluids or colloidal fluids [1]. 

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