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Water Gradations Stoichiometrically Resolve Cuprous-Chloride Tetrahedral Stamps in a Hydrochloric-Acid Smelter

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Advances in Powder and Ceramic Materials Science 2023 (TMS 2023)

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Our proposed gradation of a bearability-changer in solution-bodied cuprous chloride interfaces the stoichiometry with the disposal-habit in precipitation. The simplicity of an antisolvent-decoupled cuprous halide in a solvent is selected for an efficacious scout around a gradational tour de force. Likewise, this select is an engineered representative to give semiconduction- and production-applicability a wieldy affordable leg up. As water specials gradationally unload the cuprous chloride near saturation in hydrochloric acid, the precipitated ones’ exteriority stoichiometrically transitions. In delving an exterior-eventuality from interiority of these precipitates, their bred-in-the-bone zincblende lattice is fingered by the hired X-ray diffractometer. Optical microscopy and morphology further the visualization of the tetrahedron-externals drawn from some veterans in similar smelteries. For a constructional attraction, the escalated water bricks and downsizes an analogous façade to the primitive repeating unit at microscale. In these bricked analogies, the new discovered stellated-octahedra feature in the stoichiometric-bricking literacy and their superficial flair.

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  1. Prairie View A&M University, Mail Stop 2510, P.O. Box 519, Prairie View, TX, 77446, USA

    Kai-Wei Liu

  2. Texas A&M Transportation Institute, TAMU, 3135 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    Kai-Wei Liu & Jia-Lin Hsu

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  1. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

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  2. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

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  3. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

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  4. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

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  5. Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China

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  6. China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China

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  7. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

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Liu, KW., Hsu, JL. (2023). Water Gradations Stoichiometrically Resolve Cuprous-Chloride Tetrahedral Stamps in a Hydrochloric-Acid Smelter. In: Li, B., et al. Advances in Powder and Ceramic Materials Science 2023. TMS 2023. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22622-9_6

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