{"id":5777,"date":"2018-04-04T05:55:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T05:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2018-04-04T05:55:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T05:55:14","slug":"homogeneous-nucleation-of-vapor-condensation-dr-james-mcdonald-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/homogeneous-nucleation-of-vapor-condensation-dr-james-mcdonald-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemogeneous Nucleation of Vapor Condensation, 1962, Dr. James McDonald Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>According to the document&#8217;s introduction:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>&#8220;In absence of all foreign materials or wall surfaces, phase transitions of the type vapor-to-liquid\u00a0or liquid-to-solid are blocked by an activation-free-energy barrier. The latter arises from surface-free energy increases resulting from appearance of embryos of the more condensed phase. The thermodynamics of this type of phase transition are examined in Part I for the particular\u00a0case of vapor condensation, a case for which theory and experiment now stand in tolerably\u00a0<\/strong><strong>good agreement. In Part II, kinetic aspects will be considered. &#8220;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/navy\/ONR-18-021.pdf\">Hemogeneous Nucleation of Vapor Condensation, 1962, Dr. James McDonald Reports<\/a> [23 Pages, 3.1MB]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/navy\/ONR-18-021.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background According to the document&#8217;s introduction: &#8220;In absence of all foreign materials or wall surfaces, phase transitions of the type vapor-to-liquid\u00a0or liquid-to-solid are blocked by an activation-free-energy barrier. The latter arises from surface-free energy increases resulting from appearance of embryos of the more condensed phase. The thermodynamics of this type of phase transition are examined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1190,1188,1189],"class_list":{"0":"post-5777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-condensation","9":"tag-james-mcdonald","10":"tag-nucleation"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-03_22-53-42.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}