“…For gas-phase crystal growth, u can be expressed as an index, log (Q / K)k, where K is the equilibrium constant for phase, k, at a given temperature and pressure and Q is the activity quotient of k (Symonds et al, 1987;Symonds and Reed, 1993). Since the nucleation rate increases with a (Piekarczyk, 1987), the implied higher nucleation rates at lower temperatures suggest that a increases with decreasing temperature.…”