The distribution of waiting time, which is a stochastic variable, was measured using non-filtered solutions in 200 glass ampoules.
The distributions are analyzed by the author's stochastic model and are compared with those of filtered solutions in the previous paper to investigate quantitatively the inhibitive effect of filtration on nucleation.
As a result, the effect is attributed to the decreasing number of two kinds of active sites in the model and is reflected in an increase in the expectation value of waiting time,
E (θ).
When using 0.3μ pore-sized membrane filter, the number of the first kind of active site and the second, respectively, decreased roughly to 1/30 and 1/60 : these changes were equivalent to a 1, 000-fold increase in
E (θ), for example, at the point of logarithm of supersaturation, log (
c/c*) =0.180.
In addition, dependence of θ
ω (waiting time by Mitsuda
et al.) on log (
c/c*) is suggested to be related to the change in number of active sites from analogous behavior of θ
ω to
E (θ). Active sites are considered to be located on solid impurities in solution.
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