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. 2019 Jul 9;9(37):21405–21417. doi: 10.1039/c9ra02781e

Determination of percentage of crystal dissolved through calculation of volume change from observed area change for analysed 4.0 mol% 2-doped 1 crystals.

Sample Obs. area (μm2) Calc. volume eq. sphere (μm3) % dissolved
Initial 1 833 294 1867 291 503
PD1 1 650 782 1595 505 713 14.56
PD2 1 559 270 1464 690 868 7.01
PD3 1 413 132 1263 682 314 10.77
PD4 1 269 519 1076 025 008 10.05
PD5 1 126 801 899 776 935 9.44
PD6 828 151.4 566 928 692 17.83