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Volume 116, Number 2, October 2016
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| Article Number | 27001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/116/27001 | |
| Published online | 22 November 2016 | |
Supercrystallization of KCl from solution irradiated by soft X-rays
1 Šiauliai University - Vilnius st. 88, LT-76285, Šiauliai, Lithuania
2 Vilnius University, Faculty of Physics - 9 Sauletekis al., LT-10222, Vilnius, Lithuania
Received: 4 July 2016
Accepted: 14 October 2016
The X-rays influence on KCl crystallization in a saturated water solution has been investigated for the aim of comparing it with previously considered NaCl crystallization. The rate of crystallization has been measured in the drying drop in the solution activated by the irradiation. We have measured the influence of the irradiation time of the solution on the rates of KCl crystallization as well as the beginning of the crystallization processes on drying drops. For a longer irradiation time of the solution early crystallization in the drops occurs. A saturated water solution of KCl was irradiated with the diffractometer DRON-3M (Russian device) and this had a great influence on the two-step processes of crystallization. The ionization of the solution by soft X-rays can produce ions, metastable radicals in water, excited crystals' seeds and vacancies in growing crystals by Auger's effect. The X-rays generate a very fast crystallization in the drying drop.
PACS: 78.70.Ck – X-ray scattering / 32.80.Hd – Auger effect (including Coster-Krönig transitions) / 61.72.-y – Defects and impurities in crystals; microstructure
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