In-situ observation of solid-liquid interface during directional solidification of succinonitrile and pivalic acid (ground-based investigations and the preparation of flight experiment "Morphos")

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Space Materials and Technologies
1Shpak, AP, 2Fedorov, OP, 1Zhivolub, EL, 1Bersudsky, EI, 1Shuleshova, OV
1G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2Space Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Space Agency of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Kosm. nauka tehnol. 2003, 9 ;(5-6):020-023
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2003.05.020
Publication Language: Ukrainian
Abstract: 
We present some results of the direct study of the solid-liquid interface development in three-dimensional samples under directional solidification in different crystallographic directions in ground and microgravity conditions. The flight experimental set-up "MORPHOS" intended for the investigation of directional solidification of transparent substances is under development. The results of ground-based experiments with three-dimensional and quasi two-dimensional samples are presented.
Keywords: in-situ observation, pivalic acid, succinonitrile, «Morphos»
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