Dependence of growth rates of {100} sodium chlorate crystal faces on solution supersaturation in the range of 0.44–1.32% was analyzed. It has been shown that the growth rate dispersion does not have a consequence only in the growth parameter differences predicted by specific crystal growth theory but that individual crystal faces may grow with different mechanisms under the same experimental conditions. The majority of the observed {100} sodium chlorate crystal faces grew in accordance with the power law R ∼ σ n , whereas approximately one-third of them grew in accordance with BCF or Chernov’s theories. Possible reasons for this as well as for the coexistence of crystal faces, which grew with different mechanisms under the same conditions, have been discussed.

The results of the study of the influence of a static magnetic field of 55 ± 3 mT on the growth rates of diamagnetic sodium chlorate crystals in the direction ⟨100⟩ will be presented. Two groups of experiments were performed in the same solution supersaturation range of 0.89−1.78%, the first in zero field conditions, and the second in an applied magnetic field. The results show that crystals nucleated and grown in a static magnetic field have higher mean growth rates in the ⟨100⟩ direction than crystals in a zero field. Also, X-ray analyses suggest that crystals nucleated and grown in a magnetic field may have a higher lattice constant. Possible mechanisms and possible reasons for these phenomena are discussed.

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