抄録
By using a recently developed adiabatic calorimeter, supercooling of gallium, bismuth, tin, lead and indium was measured. It was found that the metals which crystallize in lower symmetries supercooled more deeply and more stably than those which crystallize in the structure of higher symmetry. The degree of supercooling depended on the highest temperature experienced by the sample. This thermal hysteretic effect was examined from the standpoint of nucleation and precursory phenomenon of solidification.
