EXPERIMENT 098Phase Transition

A solution holding more than it should. Below the critical point the molecules wander — disordered, free. Raise the supersaturation past the threshold and order does not seep in gradually; it propagates, site convincing neighbouring site, until the whole field is a single lattice.

Drag the slider. Tap the field to plant a nucleus and watch the crystal grow outward from it.

← the lattice
solution
order 0%
supersaturation 0.30
critical point at 0.50 · tap to seed