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Reiss, Katz, and Cohen's theory for homogeneous nucleation of liquid from vapor is reformulated by using the criticism of Lothe and Pound. It is concluded that P(0) in Reiss, Katz, and Cohen's result has to be replaced by 1/vcell. This gives a metastable equilibrium concentration of critical clusters 102–105 times larger than that predicted by Reiss, Katz, and Cohen for a typical case. The effect described has to do only with translation; the contribution from rotation of the cluster is still wholly ignored.
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