Predicting when solids will melt is harder than you may assume
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Physicists might lastly have a solution for a seemingly easy query that has remained unanswered for a couple of century: when does a substance melt?
Kostya Trachenko at Queen Mary University of London discovered it mysterious that “in this age of scientific and technological development”, physicists don’t at all times know how to predict at what temperature and stress a material will melt. He has now derived an equation that can be utilized to make such predictions for an unlimited…