The Characteristic Morphology of Benzophenone Crystal Part I: Experiments and Theoretical Calculation

Theoretical and experimental studies on the morphology of benzophenone crystal were carried out. the experimental morphology of benzophenone crystal was a polyhedron enclosed by 110,101,111,011,021,010and001faces,in which 021,010and 001 faces were very small. All of the quantitative models of the morphological theory of crystal growth predicted that, the characteristic morphology of benzophenone crystal was surrounded with 110,101,011, small 111and 010 faces. The calculated crystal faces and the sequence of their morphological importance （M1） met the experimental results well except that 111 faces were smaller than that of experiments. This consistence shew that organic crystals at least like benzophenone grown from their undercooled melts could reflect their characteristic morphologies.