Breaking local symmetry—why water freezes but silica forms a glass
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Everyone knows that water freezes at 0 degrees C. Life on Earth would be vastly different if this were not so. However, water
Everyone knows that water freezes at 0 degrees C. Life on Earth would be vastly different if this were not so. However, water's cousin, silica, exhibits wayward behavior when cooled that has long puzzled scientists.
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The viscosities of several substances plotted as functions of the
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What causes that peak? Answering a long-standing question for covalent liquids
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The shapes of water: New research details water's mysterious phase transitions
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Entropically engineered formation of fivefold and icosahedral twinned clusters of colloidal shapes
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Supercooled liquids and the glass transition
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Q&A: How Moving Water Freezes – SKY LIGHTS
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Bendability of silicate glasses. a) Three‐point‐bending of a chemically
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Recent progress in understanding the anti-icing behavior of materials - ScienceDirect
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