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Copper hydride reversibly precipitates from pyridine solution, as anamorphoussolid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Amorphoussolidstructures occur when a liquid is cooled too rapidly for the crystalline structure to form.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Two common cases of this include cooling a liquid to form anamorphoussolid, and cooling eutectoid austenite to form martensite.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Glass transitions may occur as the temperature of anamorphoussolidis increased.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Anamorphoussolidthat exhibits a glass transition is called a glass.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The term "lead crystal" is, by technicality, not an accurate term to describe "lead glass", as glass, anamorphoussolid, lacks a crystalline structure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On the other hand anamorphoussolid, without crystalline structure, should be regarded as a liquid with a very high viscosity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As the temperature increases, anamorphoussolidwill become less viscous.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In window glass or anyamorphoussolidthe atomic bond structure is highly irregular; in contrast, a crystal has a uniform pattern of atomic bonds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Apparently it can never be quenched from a melt as a completelyamorphoussolid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Glass by definition is not a ceramic because it is anamorphoussolid(non-crystalline).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most materials are "polycrystalline"; they are made of a large number of single crystals -- crystallites -- held together by thin layers ofamorphoussolid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Glass is a typicalamorphoussolid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Polycrystals are made of a large number of small single crystals, or crystallites, held together by thin layers ofamorphoussolid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the solute is not crystalline, we can still use a spatial lattice, as good an approximation for anamorphoussolidas it is for a liquid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Glass is anamorphoussolid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the limit of small crystallites, as the volume fraction of grain boundaries approaches 100%, the material ceases to have any crystalline character, and thus becomes anamorphoussolid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Solids that are neither crystalline nor polycrystalline, such as glass, are called "amorphous solids", also called glassy, vitreous, or noncrystalline.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The stable liquid state unlike most glasses and amorphous solids, is a thermodynamically stable equilibrium state.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These solids are known as amorphous solids; examples include polystyrene and glass.
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