Amorphous solid

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the materials-science subtree

Solid lacking long-range order but retaining short-range coordination. Includes glasses (SiO₂, metallic glasses), amorphous semiconductors (a-Si), and many polymers. Thermodynamically metastable with respect to the crystalline phase but…

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