Sunday, June 19, 2011

Metallic glass: A crystal at heart

Metallic glass: A crystal at heart: "ScienceDaily (June 16, 2011) — Glass, by definition, is amorphous; its atoms lack order and are arranged every which way. But when scientists squeezed tiny samples of a metallic glass under high pressure, they got a surprise: The atoms lined up in a regular pattern to form a single crystal."

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