THIXOTROPY IN SUPRAMOLECULAR CRYSTALLIZATION AND GENESIS OF MACROSTRUCTURES OF PRECIOUS OPAL
D. V. Kalinin, V. V. Serdobintseva, and Ya. V. Kuznetsova
Keywords: Precious opal, genesis, supra-molecular crystallization, thixotropic re-crystallization
Pages: 1002-1008
Abstract
At the initial stage of genesis of precious opal from concentrated suspensions of mono-disperse silica spheres, supra-molecular gel crystals with solid silica particles form. The latter are localized at the lattice sites and are separated by liquid partings
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