Ideas of capillarity -- Surface model and definitions of adsorbtion, surface ethalpy and entropy -- Laws of thermodynamics -- Fundamental formulas in terms of intensive variables -- Equilibrium states -- Examination of some approxmiations or hypotheses -- Study of a droplet suspended in the atmosphere -- Study on an ice crystal in the atmosphere -- Temperature of coexistence of a droplet of solution and crystal of ice in the atmosphere -- Germs of condensation and crystallization -- Equilibrium populations of embryos, calculation of number of germs as limiting case of problem of equilibrium -- Nucleation rate.

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