LOWER ENERGY STATE. “Because the surface molecules are less well bound to their neighbors than are those in the bulk, their contribution to the free energy of the new phase is greater…But once the nucleus gets large enough, the drop in free energy associated with formation of the bulk phase becomes sufficiently high that the surface free energy is unimportant, and every addition of a molecule to the lattice lowers the free energy of the system.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022