The growth kinetics of crystals are appreciably altered by strongly adsorbed films. The growth steps are inoperative or poisoned below a critical supersaturation. Since this supersaturation for poisoning is much less than the supersaturation level for two-dimensional nucleation, the effect should only be observable for the growth of imperfect crystals.
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G. W. Sears (1956) studied this question.
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