While universal formulas exist for every other phase transition (liquid-to-gas, gas-to-liquid, even solid-to-gas), no such formula exists for predicting when a solid melts into a liquid. A new study ...
The melting of materials seems like a simple phenomenon. However, when their thickness is reduced to just a few atoms, ...
Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study suggests. Scientists say that they have heated solid gold for a fleeting ...