Collision breeding: A function of crystal moments and degree of mixing

An experimental procedure based on continuous crystal seeding was developed which can explicitly determine the fundamental relationship between collision breeding and the leading moments of the crystal size distribution. For the aqueous, cooling crystallization of potassium dichromate, the analysis determined that only the mass moment was successful in correlating observations subject to crystal seeding. It was also observed that mixing may have a pronounced effect on the nucleation rate but that kinetic orders for collision breeding and growth rate were independent of mixing.