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RECENTLY Powell1 directed attention to the fact that for calcium sulphate hemihydrate the rate of transition of soluble anhydrite to insoluble anhydrite was greater in the α- than in the β-form. Similar phenomena were observed in our experiments2.
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Powell, D. A., Nature, 182, 792 (1958).
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Buerger, M. J., “Phase Transformation in Solids”, 206 (Wiley, New York, 1951).
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MITSUKI, C., KITA, M. Transition of Calcium Sulphate Hemihydrate to Insoluble Anhydrite. Nature 184, 1481 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841481a0
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