Crystal Growth in Gels [Paperback]

Heinz K. Henisch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 18, 1996

First book ever printed on growing crystals in a gel medium provides thorough description of the procedure, its history and future potential, and offers an extensive course of study on the physical and chemical processes involved. Will interest chemists, physicists, materials scientists and experimentally inclined amateurs. "Profusely illustrated...knowledgeable and informative, and the author has style."—The American Mineralogist. 42 illustrations. 1970 edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (January 18, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486689158
• ISBN-13: 978-0486689159
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,237,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars useful introduction in gel-crystallization, August 30, 2000

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erik krupicka (St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crystal Growth in Gels (Paperback)

The book is a good starting-point for everyone interested in crystal growing in inorganic silicate gels. Although it is limited to sodiummetasilicate-gels (more or less ignoring any other gelling media), it provides the reader with very useful hints and applications of this special crystal growing technique. Starting with the basics of the method, the reader is introduced to the mechnanism and "background" of the chemical and physical properties of the gels as well as the crystals grown in such gels. I found this book very useful in the first part of my Ph.D. project, because I don't know any other publication providing details about this technique.