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Binary Nucleation: Classical Theory

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An increase of dimensionality of a problem usually brings about a new physics. Speaking about nucleation, a step from a single-component to a binary system introduces an additional thermodynamic degree of freedom: the phase equilibrium of a binary system is characterized by two thermodynamic variables—and not one as in the single-component case.

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Kalikmanov, V.I. (2013). Binary Nucleation: Classical Theory. In: Nucleation Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 860. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3643-8_11

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