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The supercooling of aggregates of small metal particles

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Aggregates of small metal droplets of mercury, bismuth, gallium, and lead have been supercooled to a much greater extent than have large continuous liquid masses of the same metals. These results are interpreted on the basis that breaking a large liquid mass into small droplets isolates inclusions that usually catalyze nucleation in a small fraction of the droplets so that most must nucleate homogeneously.

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  1. Research Laboratory, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., USA

    David Turnbull (Associate Member AIME)

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AIME Chicago Meeting, October 1950.

TP 2910 E. Discussion (2 copies) may be sent to Transactions AIME before Dec. 15, 1950.

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Turnbull, D. The supercooling of aggregates of small metal particles. JOM 2, 1144–1148 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399113

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