amorphous condition
amorphous state

"The building was deformed: it seemed to be caught in a strange, amorphous condition, somewhere crude rustic simplicity and classical perfection."

The structure of glass forms into an amorphous state upon cooling.

The resistance of the amorphous state slowly increases according to a power law ( t).

An amorphous state requires the formation of a higher energy solid state form.

Here glass is a layman term which refers not to the amorphous state, but to the transparency.

The rapid quenching leaves behind an amorphous state with decreased density.

In the amorphous state, polymer chains assume a completely random distribution within the matrix.

In amorphous state, the atoms have short-range atomic order and low free electron density.

As the device heats the polymer will expand, changing from a crystalline into an amorphous state.

Egalet Ltd. has perfected the formation of an amorphous state of the active ingredient.

In his present amorphous state, Odo possessed no eyes, but his changeling senses nevertheless allowed him a clear image of the man.

Most of the known battery materials undergo the opposite transition: they start out as highly crystalline and pulverize to an amorphous state upon cycling.

The combination of the polyethylene oxides and the blocking co-polymer enable the control of the amorphous state.

These alloys have high resistance in the amorphous state '0' and are semimetals in the crystalline state '1'.

The surface wetting in this amorphous state is good, and on cooling the polymer crystallizes, forming a strong flexible bond with high cohesion.

In this state, the alloy loses its polycrystalline structure, assumes an amorphous state and lose its reflectivity.

They also define sculpture's current amorphous state, ranging from near-invisibility to material excess, lo-tech to (almost) high, flat to walk-in, tangible to televised.

These cells are either in a crystalline state, where electrical resistance is low, or in an amorphous state, where resistance is high.

On cooking, the gelatinized starch of sorghum tends to return from the soluble, dispersed and amorphous state to an insoluble crystalline state.

Other evidence of the amorphous state of the electorate in 1980 was to be found in poll data revealing rapidly shifting tides of support for various candidates.

The lead sulfate first forms in a finely divided, amorphous state, and easily reverts to lead, lead dioxide and sulfuric acid when the battery recharges.

The manufacturing process begins with a film of molten polyethylene terephthalate (PET) being extruded onto a chill roll, which quenches it into the amorphous state.

This can be seen from the current-voltage (IV) plot, where current is very low in the amorphous state at low voltage until threshold voltage is reached.

Adolescents unable to face the necessity of identity development avoid exploring or making commitments by remaining in an amorphous state of identity diffusion, something which may produce social isolation.

The fact that the ice was still in crystalline form suggested it had been recently deposited, as solar radiation would have degraded older ice to an amorphous state after roughly thirty thousand years.

The new system uses double-sided phase-change optical discs, where the reading and writing of data is done by converting the recording layer of the disc from an amorphous state to a crystalline state.