#amorphous solid

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Inside Solidification

As children, we're taught that there are three distinct phases of matter--solid, liquid, and gas--but the reality is somewhat more complicated.  (Image credit: U. of Nottingham; research credit: C. Leist et al.; via Gizmodo)

[quantizedweird]

man, why is it always about healing crystals? can we get any love for, like, healing amorphous solids?

[seriously-imma-cat]

My beautiful little Amorphous

[ftafp]

Since american science teachers clearly have no idea what the fuck they’re doing I have a few things to say

Fire is not a reaction – that’s COMBUSTION! Fire is the super-heated gas and red-hot soot released during a combustion reaction, not the reaction itself

Glass is not a liquid – super-cooled or otherwise! Glass is an amorphous solid, meaning unlike other solids the molecules are arranged randomly and don’t have any sort of pattern

Imaginary numbers aren’t made-up! When you want to draw a point on a grid, you need two numbers to describe where it is. You can use two separate numbers for this, but using imaginary numbers makes rotating things around the number grid easy. Don’t believe me? Find a point (say for example (1,1)) on a grid and draw a line between it and (0,0). Measure the angle between that line and the X-axis with a protractor (in this case, 45º). If you write the point as a complex number (1+1i) and then multiply it with another complex number (e.g. (1+1i) * (1+1i) = (1+2i-1) = 2i) what you’ll find is that the angles have been added up (45º + 45º = 90º)

[scitechman]

Brookhaven Lab Study Explores Nanoscale Structure of Thin Films

Brookhaven Lab Study Explores Nanoscale Structure of Thin Films

The world’s newest and brightest synchrotron light source—the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—has produced one of the first publications resulting from work done during the facility’s science commissioning phase.Published July 7 in the online edition of the International Union of Crystallography Journal (a  recently…

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[scitechman]

Brookhaven Lab Study Explores Nanoscale Structure of Thin Films

Brookhaven Lab Study Explores Nanoscale Structure of Thin Films

The world’s newest and brightest synchrotron light source—the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—has produced one of the first publications resulting from work done during the facility’s science commissioning phase.

Published July 7 in the online edition of the International Union of Crystallography Journal (a  recently…

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[mindblowingscience]

Is Glass Really A Solid? By DNews

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Physicists shatter stubborn mystery of how glass forms http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_release...

“A physicist at the University of Waterloo is among a team of scientists who have described how glasses form at the molecular level and provided a possible solution to a problem that has stumped scientists for decades.” Fact or Fiction?: Glass Is a (Supercooled) Liquid http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...

“Glass, however, is actually neither a liquid—supercooled or otherwise—nor a solid. It is an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter. “ What makes glass transparent?

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[adismusing]

States of Matter: Amorphous Solids

Glass does not flow until you heat it up past its glass–liquid transition temperature (almost the same as a melting point, more on that shortly.) Glass has both a fixed volume and a fixed shape. The only thing that glass has in common with a liquid is…

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