Table 1 Computed nucleation rates J for the two systems s1 and s2 at two temperatures: For the sake of comparison we have normalized the rates by the water-substrate contact area

From: Pre-critical fluctuations and what they disclose about heterogeneous crystal nucleation

System

s1

s2

J 218K (ns−1 Å−2) × 10−6

(7.18 ± 1.30)

(4.23 ± 0.71)

J 221K (ns−1 Å−2) × 10−7

(2.82 ± 1.02)

(2.88 ± 0.77)

  1. The error in the rate has been estimated by Jackknife resampling