Temperature dependence of homogeneous nucleation rates for water: Near equivalence of the empirical fit of Wölk and Strey, and the scaled nucleation model

Abstract

It is pointed out that the temperature fitting function of Wölk and Strey [J. Phys. Chem. 105, 11683 (2001)], recently shown to convert the Becker-Döring [Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 24, 719 (1935)] nucleation rate into an expression in agreement with much of the experimental water nucleation rate data, also converts the Becker-Döring rate into a form nearly equivalent with the scaled nucleation rate model, J(scaled)=J(oc) exp[-16piOmega(3)(T(c)T-1)(3)3(ln S)(2)]. In the latter expression J(oc) is the inverse thermal wavelength cubed/sec, evaluated at T(c).