Polymorphic Phase Transitions in Liquids and Glasses
- 17 January 1997
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 275 (5298), 322-323
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.275.5298.322
Abstract
Fluids such as liquids and glasses are not usually thought of as possessing distinct forms or phases. As Poole et al. discuss in their Perspective, recent results show that liquids can exhibit “polymorphism”—different phases characterized by different densities.Keywords
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