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The centers for these liquid crystals resemble those of normal spherulites, so the heat of formation and critical size have been deduced from formulas for the crystallization of ordinary substances. The measured heats of melting and interphase energies have been employed. The minium size of center observed in polarized light exceeds the critical size by more than an order of magnitude.
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Sakevich, N.M. Heat of formation and critical size for nuclei of liquid crystals of p-azoxyanisole and cholesteryl caprinate. Soviet Physics Journal 10, 33–34 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00819790
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