Crystallization of compounds can be used as an entropy pool in the generation of random numbers, which have applications in data encryption, and to investigate stochastic chemical processes. Automation of chemical reactions and crystal detection has enabled the collection and processing of the required large amounts of data on crystal growth and formation to allow production of such numbers and investigations.
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