Characterization of sodium chloride crys
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Pietro Fontana; JΓΌrg Schefer; Donald Pettit
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Article
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2011
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Elsevier Science
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English
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NaCl crystals grown by the evaporation of an aqueous salt solution in microgravity on the International Space Station (ISS) were characterized and compared to salt crystals grown on earth. NaCl crystallized as thin wafers in a supersaturated film of 200-700 mm thickness and 50 mm diameter, or as hop