When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Structure of liquids and glasses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_liquids_and...

    The random network structure of glassy SiO 2 in two-dimensions. Note that, as in the crystal, each silicon atom is bonded to 4 oxygen atoms, where the fourth oxygen atom is obscured from view in this plane. The periodic crystalline lattice structure of SiO 2 in two-dimensions

  3. Crystal structure - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure

    The two allotropes that are encountered at normal pressure and temperature, α-tin and β-tin, are more commonly known as gray tin and white tin respectively. Two more allotropes, γ and σ, exist at temperatures above 161 °C and pressures above several GPa. [23] White tin is metallic, and is the stable crystalline form at or above room ...

  4. Particle in a one-dimensional lattice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_in_a_one...

    In quantum mechanics, the particle in a one-dimensional lattice is a problem that occurs in the model of a periodic crystal lattice.The potential is caused by ions in the periodic structure of the crystal creating an electromagnetic field so electrons are subject to a regular potential inside the lattice.

  5. Crystal system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_system

    The diamond crystal structure belongs to the face-centered cubic lattice, with a repeated two-atom pattern. In crystallography, a crystal system is a set of point groups (a group of geometric symmetries with at least one fixed point). A lattice system is a set of Bravais lattices (an infinite infinite array of discrete points).

  6. Crystal growth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_growth

    Schematic of a small part of a growing crystal. The crystal is of (blue) cubic particles on a simple cubic lattice. The top layer is incomplete, only ten of the sixteen lattice positions are occupied by particles. A particle in the fluid (shown with red edges) is joining the crystal, growing the crystal by one particle.

  7. Liquid crystal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal

    Chemical structure of cholesteryl benzoate molecule. He found that cholesteryl benzoate does not melt in the same manner as other compounds, but has two melting points. At 145.5 °C (293.9 °F) it melts into a cloudy liquid, and at 178.5 °C (353.3 °F) it melts again and the cloudy liquid becomes clear. The phenomenon is reversible.

  8. Ice crystal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_crystal

    The symmetric shapes are due to depositional growth, which is when ice forms directly from water vapor in the atmosphere. [5] Small spaces in atmospheric particles can also collect water, freeze, and form ice crystals. [6] [7] This is known as nucleation. [8] Snowflakes form when additional vapor freezes onto an existing ice crystal. [9] [10]

  9. Water - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water

    The water cycle (known scientifically as the hydrologic cycle) is the continuous exchange of water within the hydrosphere, between the atmosphere, soil water, surface water, groundwater, and plants. Water moves perpetually through each of these regions in the water cycle consisting of the following transfer processes: