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Jan 15, 2025 | sciencedirect.com | Københavns Universitet |Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

J.H. ter Horst, ... R.M. Geertman, in Encyclopedia of Separation Science, 2000Crystallization is the nucleation and growth of a solid phase in a mother liquor. It can be used as a separation technique, because the process results in the separation of the mother liquor and the solid phase. If the mother liquor and the solid phase have different compositions it can also be used as a purification technique. In such cases the mother liquor must contain impurities.