Talk:Ostwald ripening

General term
Ostwald ripening is actually a general term for certain kind of crystal forming. This phenomena can occur in solutions and is definitely not limited to solid rock.

Idea is that first small crystals appear because this is kinetically favorable. However growing large crystals are thermodynamically more favorable and thus small crystals will slowly disappear while they are feeding large growing crystals.

Someone with beter knowledge of the phenomena should edit the article though!

Better explanation: Ostwald Ripening

Categories Chemistry | Physical chemistry

Ice cream
This is also what happens when ice cream warms and then refreezes: the number of ice crystals decreases and their size increases. Sendhil 20:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Copyedit & such
I've tried to make the article more readable, and reduce copy-edit problems. I also took out the discussion of kinetics, as Ostwald ripening is a thermodynamic process, and while kinetics does play a large role in crystallization, it was getting the discussion somewhat confused. Best, -- B figura (talk) 01:34, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Question for a Geologist
Regarding this quote from the article: "In geology, it is the textural coarsening, aging or growth of phenocrysts and crystals in solid rock which is below the solidus temperature. It is often ascribed as a process in the formation of orthoclase megacrysts, as an alternative to the physical processes governing crystal growth from nucleation and growth rate thermochemical limitations."

What is meant by thermochemical here? Is this meant to be distinct from chemical thermodynamics? Any help would be appreciated. -- B figura (talk) 05:13, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Typogephical error in reference?
Google Books has the Lehrbuch Der Allgemeinen Chemie at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Gi8KAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:0UZ4y9umq2wgk

This shows v. 2, pt. 1 published in 1893, rather than 1896. I have not changed the reference because I have not read the book, but the original author may wnat to check the citation, and could add the link if desired. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.216.138.253 (talk) 20:04, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Characters aren't showing up in Chrome
In Mechanism, this

"Note that the quantity ⟨R⟩3 is different from ⟨R3⟩, and only the latter"

is what shows up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.71.118.114 (talk) 12:35, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

formula for f (R, t)
It seems to me that there is an error in the formula for f (R, t), missing ρ2 and possibly some coefficient. In original paper this formula is for R3 distribution. M-i-k-e-v (talk) 09:25, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Modification of the article
Hello, we are last-year students of the Physics degree, and we have studied the Ostwald rippening process in terms of thermodinamical variables. We wanted to modify this article including some of the principal equations and a graph.