Melting, and the liquid and glassy states

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, , Citation Rodney M J Cotterill 1981 Phys. Bull. 32 285 DOI 10.1088/0031-9112/32/9/028

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Abstract

The crystalline, liquid and glassy states of condensed matter are so familiar that it is surprising how little we know about the relationships between them. A crystal melts when its temperature reaches a certain value, but just what happens at the atomic level remains a mystery.

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