Physicists have worked out how to melt any material

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Physicists have worked out how to melt any material

Predicting when solids will melt is more difficult than you might think

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Physicists may finally have an answer for a seemingly simple question that has remained unanswered for about a century: when does a substance melt?

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at Queen Mary University of London found it mysterious that “in this age of scientific and technological development”, physicists do not always know how to predict at what temperature and pressure a material will melt. He has now derived an equation that can be used to make such predictions for a vast…

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