Phosphate concentration, effect crystallization rate

Figure 5 shows the effect of phosphate concentration on crystallization rate Rg. Crystallization rate was obtained by weighing seeds in the reactor periodically, in which phosphate concentration drop in the bed was low enough, not to produce concentration distribution, by making the depth of the bed thin. Solubility of hydroxyapatite is so low, that the influent phosphate concentration is equal to super saturation dC. As shown in Figure 5, crystallization rate was proportional to 1.1th order of supersaturation. 

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