STABLE LATTICE. “Exactly how a stable crystal nucleus is formed within a homogeneous fluid is not known with any degree of certainty. The formation of crystal nuclei is an even more difficult process to envisage. Not only have the constituent molecules to coagulate, resisting the tendency to redissolve, but they also have to become orientated into a fixed lattice.”
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