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Spontaneous nucleation frequency in superheated liquid xenon and krypton

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An experimental study is made of spontaneous boiling up in superheated liquid xenon and krypton. Results are compared with calculations using the Volmer-Zel'dovich-Frenkel homogeneous nucleation theory.

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  1. Division of Physicotechnical Energetics Problems, Ural Scientific Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Sverdlovsk

    A. M. Kaverin, V. G. Baidakov & V. P. Skripov

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  1. A. M. Kaverin
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 680–684, April, 1980.

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Kaverin, A.M., Baidakov, V.G. & Skripov, V.P. Spontaneous nucleation frequency in superheated liquid xenon and krypton. Journal of Engineering Physics 38, 408–411 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00866473

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