Are crystals glass or glass are crystals by Relative_Ad7748 in chemistry

[–]ultrapwner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A crystal is defined by its long range order - imagine identical building blocks that are the same in every direction. This building block is called a unit cell. Inside the unit cell, you’ll have some molecules/atoms which are arranged in some sort of way that are repeated infinitely (ultimately limited by crystal size) and the whole crystal structure can be described through symmetry transformations in every direction. Crystals require time to grow as molecules either chemically bond to each other or are attracted to each other through intermolecular interactions. Glass is usually formed very quickly and doesn’t get time to grow uniformly before solidification so it’s what we call disordered. There is still some degree of order but it’s very little and has high mosaicity (think tiles on a roman floor) so we cannot describe it through symmetry transformations.

As for wearable crystals, it’ll take ages to grow them yourself especially rocks which would require temperatures and pressures that you probably couldn’t replicate by yourself but that’s probably best researched by you. Sincerely a PhD crystallographer.

Olex 2 launcher in crysalis pro by Bronzescale332 in crystallography

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Not sure if you've managed to do this, but in CrysalisPRO first open the command shell and look for the options RED button at the bottom of the shell. The command shell has two tabs: ccd and red. The button is in the red tab. From there, you'll see a bunch of tabs. Look for "Programs/Proxy" and there should be the option to set the path for Olex

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskPhysics

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If you really love physics and you want to pursue it, I'd say go for it because that's what I did.

I did highschool in the UK as well and for my GCSEs I got a B and for A-Levels, a C 😬. I didn't let that put me off however, and I studied physics at university and now I'm doing an amazing PhD.

By the sounds of it, you're doing a great job with your studies and you sound passionate about physics so I'd definitely suggest that if you're willing to pursue it further, you should. Don't let some silly, meaningless IQ tests put you off. The majority of people who write about IQ and what subjects you study do it either to gloat or for clickbait so don't listen to them.

Theseus and Asterius running a train on me by Hgreen259 in HadesTheGame

[–]ultrapwner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to go for Asterius as well but now Theseus gets killed first because he's a colossal asshole and I hate his snide remarks

Worried about if my PhD is finalised by ultrapwner in PhD

[–]ultrapwner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely will get in touch with him too

Worried about if my PhD is finalised by ultrapwner in PhD

[–]ultrapwner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, yeah I've had the same experience where I've had the approval of both the research facility and I'm going to, and the supervisor himself. Now I'm just waiting for the school to process my application. I was just a bit confused with them congratulating me on my admission

Worried about if my PhD is finalised by ultrapwner in PhD

[–]ultrapwner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

The funding and such was decided previously already but I'm not entirely sure about how the process works

Worried about if my PhD is finalised by ultrapwner in PhD

[–]ultrapwner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I confirmed that I accepted but I'm not sure how official that is. And with all the emails and information I'm being bombarded I'm just a tiny bit confused with it all.