Amorphism

An amorphism, in chemistry, crystallography and, by extension, to other areas of the natural sciences is a substance or feature that lacks an ordered form. In the specific case of crystallography, an amorphic material is one that lacks long range (significant) crystalline order at the molecular level. In the history of chemistry, amorphism was recognised even before the discovery of the nature of the exact atomic crystalline lattice structure.[1] The concept of amorphism can also be found in the fields of art,[2] biology, archaeology and philosophy[3] as a characterisation of objects without form, or with random or unstructured form.

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References
  1. (Gmelin 1872)
  2. (Weiss 1994)
  3. Solovyof, 2005
  • Gmelin, Leopold (1872). "Handbook of Chemistry". Works of the Cavendish Society. London: Cavendish Society. 2 (vol. 1 of Gmelin): 103. OCLC 47348608.
  • Vladimir Solovyof, Natalie Duddington and Boris Jakim (2005) The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 410 pages ISBN 0-8028-2863-9
  • Weiss, Jeffrey S. (1994). The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-gardism. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05895-0.


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