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The Hume-Rothery rules are a set of guidelines that can help you determine whether two elements will form a substitutional solid solution. The Hume-Rothery rules are: Similar atomic radii (15%...
Refractory metals are the metallic elements with the highest melting point, high hardness, and high density. Conservative definitions of “refractory” refer to 5 industrially useful metals with a...
Crystals are materials that have a repeating arrangement of atoms. Single crystals, like gemstones, have a single grain so the periodic array of atoms is never interrupted. Polycrystals, like metal,...
Which Metals Are Magnetic? (List of Ferromagnetic and Ferrimagnetic Materials)
When I was a kid, I thought all metals were magnetic, and nonmetals were not magnetic. Then I learned about ferromagnetism, diamagnetism, and paramagnetism and I thought that Magneto (from X-men)...
Halite is the fancy geology or crystallography name for sodium chloride (NaCl), which may also be known as “rock salt” or “table salt.” In materials science, we usually use the term...
If you have seen the abbreviation BCT somewhere related to materials science, physics, or crystallography, it probably stands for Body-Centered Tetragonal. This is a crystal structure with 8 atoms...