Text: "An experimental model of a classical many-body system." Experimental demonstration of dislocations, monovacancies, and bivacancies -- and formation of a polycrystalline solid (which eventually becomes monocrystalline) by fast compression of a fluid sample. Illuminating. Effects have implications for unorthodox engineering. American Journal of Physics. 52(1), Jan. 1984. p. 68-73.

See Also: many-body system, dislocations, grain boundaries, crystal lattices, crystal defects.

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