Accurate Rates of the Complex Mechanisms for Growth and Dissolution of Minerals Using a Combination of Rare-Event Theories

Mineral growth and dissolution are often treated as occurring via a single reversible process that governs the rate of reaction. We show that multiple distinct intermediate states can occur during both growth and dissolution. Specifically, we used metadynamics, a method for efficiently exploring the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stack, A., Raiteri, Paolo, Gale, Julian
Format: Journal Article
Published: The American Chemical Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44964