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📅 NSB Round Robin 2020🎓 MS🔄 Round 5#️⃣ Question 10🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Lab are studying phase-change materials, which are used in the RAM of computers and smartphones. These materials change from a glassy phase to a crystalline phase with a thermal pulse, and then lock in that phase at a lower temperature. While the crystalline phase is ordered, what term best describes the glassy phase because it is a solid material that lacks long range order?

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