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Influence of ions on the nucleation processes in liquids.

II. - Liquids under positive pressure in metastable thermodynamical equilibrium (overheated liquids)

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Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965)

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The behaviour of liquids in metastable equilibrium under positive pressure has been investigated, and an expression for the total flux of « critical » bubbles carrying different number of ions has been found. A comparison between our results and the data of some experiments shows that in some cases the contribution of the ions at the nucleation processes in overheated liquids cannot be neglected. The total flux of bubbles is larger than that obtained when the effect of the ions is neglected: the waiting times are therefore shorter and, in some cases, become zero effectively.

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Si studia il comportamento di liquidi in equilibrio metastabile sotto pressioni positive. Si ricava il lavoroD n (R, N) necessario per la formazione di una bolla di raggioR contenente un numeroN qualsiasi di ioni, a partire dagli «aggregati iniziali» definiti in §2. Si ricava la frequenza di formazione di «bolle critiche» a partire da questi aggregati, avendo chiamato «bolle critiche» le bolle che hanno raggiunto un valore del raggio tale che crescono liberamente con diminuzione della loro energia (§3). Si discutono i risultati e si mostra (§4) che tale frequenza è in generale piú grande di quella che si ottiene trascurando l’effetto degli ioni. Si confrontano i risultati con alcuni dati sperimentali, che mostrano che in alcuni casi non è lecito trascurare il contributo degli ioni nei processi di nucleazione di liquidi surriscaldati.

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Bertanza, L., Martelli, G. Influence of ions on the nucleation processes in liquids.. Nuovo Cim 1, 324–336 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900639

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