PHASE CHANGE. “Nucleation is one of the two major mechanisms of the first order phase transition, the process of generating a new phase from an old phase whose free energy has become higher than that of the emerging new phase. Nucleation occurs via the formation of small embryos of the new phase inside the large volume of the old phase. Another prominent feature of nucleation is metastability of the old phase, i.e., the transformation requires passage over a free energy barrier.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022