Table 3.
Parameters of the α–time curves fitted by Avrami equation (with n fixed at 2) together with the estimated weight percentages of metastable polymorph generated in hand-triturated and ball-milled R-RW samples at different time intervals
Time (min) | Manual trituration |
Ball milling |
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K | R2 | % (w/w) | K | R2 | % (w/w) | |
0 | 0.003 (0.000) | 0.997 | 0.000 (0.000) | 0.003 (0.000) | 0.907 | 0.000 (0.000) |
1 | 0.019 (0.002) | 0.949 | 0.004 (0.001) | 0.005 (0.001) | 0.905 | 0.000 (0.000) |
3 | 0.027 (0.003) | 0.921 | 0.010 (0.001) | 0.012 (0.003) | 0.742 | 0.001 (0.000) |
6 | 0.038 (0.006) | 0.914 | 0.022 (0.004) | 0.018 (0.006) | 0.618 | 0.004 (0.002) |
10 | 0.060 (0.008) | 0.952 | 0.064 (0.011) | 0.041 (0.015) | 0.722 | 0.026 (0.011) |
20 | 0.146 (0.045) | 0.878 | 0.532 (0.196) | 0.067 (0.028) | 0.624 | 0.084 (0.042) |
30 | 0.178 (0.029) | 0.968 | 0.851 (0.164) | 0.058 (0.030) | 0.429 | 0.059 (0.037) |
40 | 0.235 (0.035) | 0.969 | 1.643 (0.296) | 0.151 (0.087) | 0.444 | 0.576 (0.400) |
50 | 0.304 (0.043) | 0.973 | 3.025 (0.516) | 0.158 (0.086) | 0.437 | 0.642 (0.420) |