Supercrystallization of NaCl from Solution Irradiated by Soft X-Rays

It was found that irradiation of a water solution of NaCl with the diffractometer DRON3-M (Russian device) had a large influence on two-step processes of crystallization. The irradiation in the first stage of crystallization of the solution produces metastable radicals of water and excited seeds, which stimulate a very fast crystallization after switching off irradiation. After the crystals reach a sufficient size, the crystal growth can be explained by creation of vacancy-interstitial pairs in the growing crystal due to irradiation. The increase of linear dimensions of the growing irradiated crystals is proportional to the square root root t. of crystallization time because most important place in crystallization takes the ions diffusion by irradiated vacancies.