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Phase Change (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not just crystals. Even amorphous solids, like glass, can be extremely kiki.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

amorphous is a bouba word for kiki materials

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so lost!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Woah, that's really cool!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

What's even cooler is that the Wikipedia URL actually supports unencoded slashes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

I was wondering what was happening there!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

I noticed that! Never seen that before either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Some rain feels very kiki to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

True, but if you look at it close up, it's bouba. Very small bouba moving fast does kinda turn into kiki at larger scales.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

We need a grand unified theory for describing the physics where matter goes from bouba- to kiki-scale.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Water above 273 K with a certain amount of pressure becomes kiki again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Where’s that area on this phase diagram?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

There:

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