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Figure 1: The state of atomic motion. Figure 2: The atomic arrangements in (A) a crystalline solid, (B) an amorphous solid, and (C) a gas. Figure 3: The two general cooling paths by which a group of atoms can condense. Route 1 is the path to the crystalline state; route 2 is the rapid-quench path to the amorphous solid state. Figure 7: Two basic models for the atomic-scale structure of amorphous solids.
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Also Known As noncrystalline solid • amorphous material • amorphous substance • noncrystalline material

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Figure 1: The state of atomic motion.
Figure 2: The atomic arrangements in (A) a crystalline solid, (B) an amorphous solid, and (C) a gas.
Figure 3: The two general cooling paths by which a group of atoms can condense. Route 1 is the path to the crystalline state; route 2 is the rapid-quench path to the amorphous solid state.
Figure 7: Two basic models for the atomic-scale structure of amorphous solids.
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Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.
Sir Nevill F. Mott
British physicist
John H. Van Vleck
American physicist
Bertram Eugene Warren
American crystallographer