-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear s,
I have heard this discussion before and reminds me of people claiming strawberries were nuts - which botanically may be correct, but would still not make me complain about strawberries in a fruit cake I ordered at a restaurant. My Pengiun English Dictionary states (amongst other explanations) freeze: "to make extremely cold", so as long as you think your article is written in English, you did not say anything wrong, assuming your readers are intelligent enough to understand what you are trying to say - and in a crystallographic article, the process of 'freezing' your crystal is most likely not your main point where you need to be 100% unambiguous. Cheers, Tim On 11/15/2012 06:13 PM, Sebastiano Pasqualato wrote: > > Hi folks, I have recently received a comment on a paper, in which > referee #1 (excellent referee, btw!) commented like this: > > "crystals were vitrified rather than frozen." > > These were crystals grew in ca. 2.5 M sodium malonate, directly dip > in liquid nitrogen prior to data collection at 100 K. We stated in > the methods section that crystals were "frozen in liquid nitrogen", > as I always did. > > After a little googling it looks like I've always been wrong, and > what we are always doing is doing is actually vitrifying the > crystals. Should I always use this statement, from now on, or are > there english/physics subtleties that I'm not grasping? > > Thanks a lot, ciao, s > > - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFQpS17UxlJ7aRr7hoRAvX0AJ9b3YYQ4kXu5J0wJdEYudPclTmKtQCg8HSx R4wgkmbp2l7Q/ns/HfJkqgY= =R9Wp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
