Pre-nucleation clusters and non-classical crystal formation

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Peculiarities of the non-classical mechanism of the crystal nucleation, associated with the formation of stable prenucleus intermediate phase clusters in a crystal-forming medium, are considered. These clusters (quatarons) represent primary protomineral particles for which crystallization is one of the possible evolutionary scenarios. Conditions of the quataron formation and their characteristic properties are discussed. The relevance of experiments on direct observation of prenucleus clusters and other objects of the protomineral world is presented.

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Askhab Magomedovich Askhabov

Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: askhabov@geo.komisc.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2323-9957
SPIN-code: 5872-4941

RAS Academician, Chief Researcher of the Laboratory of Experimental Mineralogy, Institute of Geology

Russian Federation, 167982, Komi Republic, Syktyvkar, Pervomayskaya, 54

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