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Nucleation Theory: is Replacement Free Energy Needed?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Robert H. Doremus*
Affiliation:
Materials Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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