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Pyroelectric Effect of a Sucrose Monocrystal

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Metodija Najdoski , Ljupco J. Pejov and Vladimir M. Petrusevski

Institut za Hemija, Prirodno-Matematicki Fakltet, Arhimedova 5, Skopje, Macedonia

Fred Juergens

Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706

Penny Snetsinger

Department of Chemistry, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 06432

J. Chem. Educ., 1999, 76 (3), p 360

DOI: 10.1021/ed076p360

Publication Date (Web): March 1, 1999

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History, Education, and Documentation

Abstract

A monocrystal of sucrose, cooled to the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen and then left at ambient temperature, shows a pyroelectric effect that is very clearly manifested through the growth of ice crystals in the direction of the induced electric field lines of force.

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Crystals / Crystallography

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