Required to Specify a Crystallizer

Control of supersaturation is an important factor in obtaining crystal size distributions of desired characteristics, and it would be useful to have a model relating rate of cooling or evaporation or addition of diluent required to maintain a specified supersaturation in the crystallizer. Contrast this to the uncontrolled situation of natural cooling in which the heat transfer rate is given by... 

The complete characterization of a particulate material requires development of a functional relationship between crystal size and population or mass. The functional relationship may assume an analytical form (7), but more frequentiy it is necessary to work with data that do not fit such expressions. As such detail may be cumbersome or unavailable for a crystalline product, the material may be more simply (and less completely) described in terms of a single crystal size and a spread of the distribution about that specified dimension. 

We have given defect-equations for edl nine types of defects, and the Equilibrium Constants thereby associated. However, calculation of these equilibria would require values in terms of energy at each site, values which are difficult to determine. A better method is to convert these EC equations to those involving numbers of each Qrpe of intrinsic defect, as a ratio to an intrinsic cation or einion. This would allow us to calculate the actual number of intrinsic defects present in the crystal, at a specified temperature. 

Check the crystal diffraction by setting up to take a 0.5° oscillation (for around 2 min) by specifying the required parameters in the file, namely crystal name, distance, and oscillation range. If the diffraction is weak, repeat the exposure with a longer time. 

At the end of Section 10.1 the Mulliken overlap population is mentioned as a quantity related to the bond order. A corresponding quantity for solids was introduced by R. Hoffmann the crystal orbital overlap population (COOP). It is a function that specifies the bond strength in a crystal, all states being taken into account by the Mulliken overlap populations Its calculation requires a powerful computer however, it can... 

Crystal symmetries that entail centering translations and/or those symmetry operations that have translational components (screw rotations and glides) cause certain sets of X-ray reflections to be absent from the diffraction pattern. Such absences are called systematic absences. A general explanation of why this happens would take more space and require use of more diffraction theory than is possible here. Thus, after giving only one heuristic demonstration of how a systematic absence can arise, we shall go directly to a discussion of how such absences enable us to take a giant step toward specifying the space group. 

Additional variables may be required, such as three that specify a relative translation of one crystal with respect to the other. 

The rate of cooling, or evaporation, or addition of diluent required to maintain specified conditions in a batch crystallizer often can be determined from a population-balance model. Moments of the population density function are used in the development of equations relating the control variable to time. As defined earlier, the moments are... 

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