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On the Thermodynamics of Nucleation in Weak Gas-Liquid Solutions

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Journal of Basic Engineering, 92 (4): 695--701 (1970)
DOI: 10.1115/1.3425107

Abstract

Gas-vapor nucleation in liquid solutions is considered. It is shown that for nucleation to occur in a multicomponent solution a nucleus must be created of at least a certain radius. Consideration is then restricted to weak solutions of gas dissolved in liquids with the gas allowed to behave nonideally. A generalized Kelvin equation is derived which relates the partial pressure of the solvent vapor inside a nucleus to the properties of the surrounding solution. It is shown how, for a given temperature, the pressure at which nucleation occurs in a gas-liquid solution is increased as the gas concentration is increased.

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