americanmensa: Witness The Birth Of A Mineral While investigating the effects of nucleation, whereby
americanmensa:Witness The Birth Of A MineralWhile investigating the effects of nucleation, whereby molecules assemble into crystalline structures, researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory trained a transmission electron microscope on high concentrations of sodium bicarbonate and calcium chloride in water to watch the process occur in real-time.“For a decade, we’ve been studying the formation pathways of carbonates using high-powered microscopes, but we hadn’t had the tools to watch the crystals form in real time. Now we know the pathways are far more complicated than envisioned in the models established in the twentieth century.”Continue Reading -- source link
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