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A Close Look at Melting Crystals (3 of 4)

Caption: This is a typical homogeneous nucleation process (speed is 3x real time). Colors represent the strength of the vibration. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 5, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Ziren Wang at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, China, and colleagues was titled, "Imaging the Homogeneous Nucleation During the Melting of Superheated Colloidal Crystals."

Credit: Video courtesy of Ziren Wang

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