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Observation of bending, cracking and jumping phenomena on cooling and heating of tetrahydrate berberine chloride crystals

Manjeet Singh, Subhrajyoti Bhandary, Rohit Bhowal, Deepak Chopra

CrystEngComm · 2018 · 22 citations · 22 references

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Tetrahydrate berberine chloride crystals undergo cracking, bending and jumping on cooling as well as on heating at room temperature with a rapid conversion to a dihydrate phase.

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