The role of the attractive potential of a droplet in unary and binary steady state nucleation

The role of the attractive potential of a droplet in steady state unary and binary nucleation under normal pressures is considered. We determined the nucleation fate by direct numerical solution of the birth and death equations. The correction due to the attractive potential is found to be unessential for three distinct systems considered (pure water, nearly ideal mixture of CCl4 and SiCl4 and highly nonideal mixture of H2O and NH3). (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.