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Title
Chemistry: Get into the groove.
Abstract
The article reports on the chemistry study conducted by Amanda Page and Richard Sear to scratch a beaker to induce crystallization at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England. As seen in the experiments, they found out that the rate of crystal nucleation is orders of magnitude higher in the wedge than on a flat surface. It mentions that nucleation is fastest when the angle allows a defect-free piece of crystal to fit perfectly in the wedge.