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Microseeding vs Macroseeding - What's the difference?

microseeding | macroseeding | coordinate terms |

Macroseeding is a coordinate term of microseeding.



As nouns the difference between microseeding and macroseeding

is that microseeding is a technique in which very small crystals are used to seed the formation of much larger ones while macroseeding is the seeding of crystallization using an intact crystal that has already been grown.

microseeding

English

Noun

(-)
  • (crystallography) A technique in which very small crystals are used to seed the formation of much larger ones

    • Related terms

    *microseed

    macroseeding

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The seeding of crystallization using an intact crystal that has already been grown
  • *{{quote-journal, 1998, date=March 6, Lance Stewart et al., A Model for the Mechanism of Human Topoisomerase I, Science citation
    • , passage=Repeated cycles of macroseeding were required to obtain crystals of sufficient size for data collection

    Coordinate terms

    *microseeding *streak seeding