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On the crystallization of sodium nitrate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

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Experiments made by Professor Miers and Miss F. Isaac have shown how, by measurements of the refractive index, it is possible to determine for a supersaturated solution the temperature at which it passes from the metastable condition, in which it can only crystallize by inoculation with a crystal of the salt (or of a substance isomorphous with it), to the labile condition, in which it may (and often does) crystallize spontaneously. In a diagram in which concentrations are taken as ordinates and temperatures a abscissae the solubility curve represents the limit between the unsaturated and the metastable state; and the limit between the metastable and the labile state is represented by a similar curve, to which they have given the name ‘Supersolubility curve’.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1906

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References

Page 123 note 1 Journ. Chemical Society, 1906, vol. lxxxix, pp. 413-454.

Page 132 note 1 Miers, H. A., Phil. Trans., 1903, Set. A, vol. ccii, p. 515 Google Scholar.