Crystallization columns in a laboratory furnace

Abstract

A design for a modular and adaptable air cooler (crystallization lattice bridge) installed in a laboratory furnace is presented. The setup allows easy regulation and simultaneous crystallization tests of a series of different temperature gradients, shapes of crystallization fronts and rate intervals in crucible columns, enabling rapid acquisition of crystals in school laboratories.

Tube for obtaining crystals in a laboratory furnace

“…In previous papers (Cabric & Janicijevic, 2007;Cabric & Danilovic, 2009), we have described a design for an air cooler in a laboratory tube furnace, with the aim of regulating the crystallization rates in a column of crucibles and Tamman test tubes. In this paper, the development and improvement of the exterior and interior of the cooler, including an air-cooled tube with mounting rings, cold plugs, movable cold thresholds and slide bars ('crystallization incubator'), is presented (Fig.…”