The melting of crystals is the process by which an increase in temperature induces the disruption of the ordered crystalline lattice, leading to the disordered structure and highly fluctuating dynamic ...

Zinc sulphide exists with two different crystal structures, the cubic zinc blend (top diagram) and the hexagonal Wurtzite (lower diagram). In the zinc blend structure the sulphur ions form an fcc ...

When a solution evaporates, the water goes into the air but the solid is left behind. Students continue exploring the particle ... As they cool to the freezing temperature of water, the molecules slow ...

Sodium Chloride is an alkali halide with an fcc crystal structure. The basis is two ions, a sodium cation and a chlorine anion. The crystal lattice parameter is 0.563 nm. The diagram shows both a unit ...

A quasicrystal is a solid that, like a regular crystal, has atoms arranged in ... Then, they created spaces inside the diamond's structure by bombarding it with powerful beams of nitrogen.