Energy Diagram (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Energy Diagram

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A diagram of the free energy barrier depicts the energy required to sustain ice nucleation, with a small diagram of a sufficiently-sized crystallite at the peak of the barrier. A larger-scale model (right) shows a cubic segment of a larger crystallite, with cubically-stacked molecules in red and hexagonally-stacked molecules in blue.

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