Quantitative Assessment of the Effect of Additives on Nucleation, Growth and Aggregation of Crystals

Among the physico-chemical problems associated with biological mineralization the determination of the rates and mechanisms of nuclation, crystal growth and aggregation and the assessment of the effect of potential inhibitors/ promotors thereon deserves particular attention", A typical »in vivo« situation in which these processes are initiated in supersaturated, unseeded solution is crystalluria which is considered to be the initial step in renal stone formation"