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In the Classroom
Tested Demonstrations
Pyroelectric Effect of a Sucrose Monocrystal
submitted by: Metodija Najdoski, Ljupco J. Pejov, and Vladimir M.Petrusevski
Institut za Hemija, Prirodno-Matematicki Fakltet, Arhimedova 5, Skopje, Macedonia

checked by: Penny Snetsinger
Department of Chemistry, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 06432

checked by: Fred Juergens
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706

Cover
March 1999
Vol. 76 No. 3
p. 360

Abstract
A monocrystal of sucrose, cooled to the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen and then left at ambient temperature, shows a pyroelectric effect that is very clearly manifested through the growth of ice crystals in the direction of the induced electric field lines of force.
More Information
*  Citation
Najdoski, Metodija; Pejov, Ljupco J.; Petrusevski, Vladimir M. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 360.
*  Keywords
Demonstrations; Physical Chemistry; Crystallography / Crystal Growth; Materials Science; Graduate Education / Research
*  History
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Last Updated:
June 15, 1999
June 22, 2005
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