Grundlagen der Kinetik mineralbildender Prozesse

Abstract

AbstractThe most complex physico‐chemical process “mineral formation in multicomponent system” is discussed in the sense of limiting cases. The following elementary processes are briefly treated: nucleation and formation of new phases, matter transport in one phase multicomponent system, heterogeneous reaction in multicomponent system. In many cases zero, one and two dimensional crystalline defects play an important role for the morphological and kinetical development of minerals. The role of point defect thermodynamics for the transport coefficient and transport theory of crystalline multicomponent systems is pointed out in some detail.