We use calorimetrically detected crystal nucleation and growth studies to broaden the discussion of fluctuation-induced nucleation processes to include composition fluctuations in ionic complex-forming systems. We use the model system Ca(NO3)(2)-KNO3 with NaNO3 introduced as a third component, so that crystallization kinetics can be controlled by change of alkali cation at constant mole fraction of Ca(NO3)(2). At fixed NaNO3 content, we find separate and thermodynamically anomalous kinetics for the crystallization of NaNO3 and Ca(NO3)(2),which we attribute to the importance of slow concentration fluctuations in the latter case. The "nose" of the time-temperature-transformation TTT curve for crystallization of the Ca(NO3)(2) occurs at much higher temperatures and longer times than that for NaNO3 and the shape of the curve is different. Above the metastable liquidus surface of NaNO3, supercooled ternary melts can persist for long times. Suppression of the fast NaNO3 crystallization, by replacement of Na+ by K+, is a prerequisite for easy vitrification in this system. T