... success. But at the
high-value end of the market, glass-ceramics have been one
of
the most notable
success stories of materials science and engineering.
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Clyne, ... surface science to mark the 30th anniversary of the journal,
making up volumes 299/300 of
Surface Science.
Other fields of surface study were of c...
...
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The
Emergence
of
Disciplines
2. 1. Drawing Parallels
2. 1.1 The Emergence
of
Physical Chemistry
2. 1 .2 The Origins
of
Chemical Engineering
2. 1.3 Polymer Science
2. 1.4
Colloids
2. 1.5 ...
Science are now occupied by the Department of the History and Philosophy of
Science.
To
the best of my knowledge, there has never been another department of...
... difficulties to the reader.
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Nevertheless, a very few eminent scientists held out to the end. Perhaps the most
famous of these was the Austrian Ernst Mach (1 838 -1916), ... fallen on one
of
its sides, the new
condition of stability. If, now, the tip is shaved off the pyramid, leaving a small flat
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of...
... development of steel
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Materials Science
A research student in the history of science (Chaloner 1997) recently published
an analysis of the impact of Wilson’s innovation under the ... title The most
wonderful experiment in the world: a history of the cloud chamber”, and the
professor of the history of science at Harvard almost sim...
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and
repeat of
the cycle
(b)-(d)
Figure
3. 25.
The Gurney-Mott model
for
the formation
of
a
latent
image
(after
Slifkin
1972).
Yet another ... impact that quantum theory had on the theory of the behaviour of electrons in
solids. In the first quarter of the century, attention was focused on the Drude-
Lorentz...
... into the surface of a piece of mild steel, which was then
annealed; the further from the impression, the smaller the local strain and the larger
the resultant grains, and the existence of a ... examination
of
the influence of this celebrated piece of theory, Tyrrell
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Materials Science
so
a much higher stress would be needed to sust...
... functions, together with the
development of image-formation theory, jointly constitute one of the broadest and
most important parepistemes in the whole of materials science, and enormous sums
of money ... the Ni-Cr Cu system, was done in the
Netherlands by Meijering (19 57) . The early history of CALPHAD has recently been
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of
Materials
Scie...
... accepted that a van Gogh
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as a moving testimony to the brilliance of his theoretical and experimental
investigations”.
The essence of Castaing’s instrument ...
German, Johann Hittorf, in
185 1
to take up the study of silver sulphide, AgZS, as
253
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Materials
Science
sample can resonantly absorb...
... responsible for the strikingly
low
thermal
conductivity of these materials (Sales
199 7).
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Materials
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semiconductor lasers were unstable, and quickly lost their luminosity. ... 280
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The electronic theory of metallic superconduction was established by Bardeen,
Cooper and Schrieffer in 195 7, but the...
...
morphological aspects
of
phase transformations in polymers,
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Materials Science
the legacy of Staudinger and Carothers”. These two books focus on the underlying
science, though ...
in
solution. (One of these papers was published in the
Journal
of
Physical Chemistry,
the other
in
the
Journal
of
Chemical Physics).
The theory was
work...
... from the late 16th century onwards, when Florentine potters came close;
French potters succeeded in making a somewhat inferior version of porcelain (the
354
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Coming
of
Materials Science ...
(Applied Science
Debye, P.J.W. (1944)
J.
Appl. Phys.
25,
338.
Publishers, London).
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Coming
of
Materials
Science
Some years later, the analysis of the...
... success. But at the
high-value end of the market, glass-ceramics have been one
of
the most notable
success stories of materials science and engineering.
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Coming
of
Materials Science ... chapter.
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Science
This was the starting-point for the creation of a great variety of bulk glass-
ceramics, many of them b...
... understanding
of
the migration
of
bubbles
in
solids
in a thermal gradient. To minimise the effect
of
bubbles, it was important to nucleate
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Coming
of Materials
Science
logical’. ... in the middle of the
century. The elements are: an accurate theory of the effects in question, preferably
without disposable parameters; and, to check the theor...
... merged them and nowadays many of the laboratory’s
employees would rate themselves simply as materials scientists.
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After this, there was a long period of ...
‘rattling’
of
the rare earth atoms in their cages is believed be responsible for the strikingly
low
thermal
conductivity of these materials (Sales
1997).
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