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I have been recently introduced to this new concept of amorphous solids, in particular, amorphous metals, and I came up with the following problems that could not be answered with my somewhat intensive search:

I gathered that many of amorphous solids are made by quickly cooling the liquid material, thereby giving it no time to form any long-range order (crystallinity). So it makes a perfect sense that when high heat is applied to amorphous solid, it will regain its crystallinity, and will no longer be glassy.

But is this behavior non-continuous? That is, can sustained low thermal excitation give rise to the crystallinity in amorphous solids given enough time? Or is there a threshold temperature (or a level of thermal/mechanical excitation) below with no excitation can bring back the crystallinity?

Thanks bunch in advance!

I have been recently introduced to this new concept of amorphous solids, in particular, amorphous metals, and I came up with the following problems that could not be answered with my somewhat intensive search:

I gathered that many of amorphous solids are made by quickly cooling the liquid material, thereby giving it no time to form any long-range order (crystallinity). So it makes a perfect sense that when high heat is applied to amorphous solid, it will regain its crystallinity, and will no longer be glassy.

But is this behavior non-continuous? That is, can sustained low thermal excitation give rise to the crystallinity in amorphous solids given enough time? Or is there a threshold temperature (or a level of thermal/mechanical excitation) below with no excitation can bring back the crystallinity?

Thanks bunch in advance!

I gathered that many of amorphous solids are made by quickly cooling the liquid material, thereby giving it no time to form any long-range order (crystallinity). So it makes a perfect sense that when high heat is applied to amorphous solid, it will regain its crystallinity, and will no longer be glassy.

But is this behavior non-continuous? That is, can sustained low thermal excitation give rise to the crystallinity in amorphous solids given enough time? Or is there a threshold temperature (or a level of thermal/mechanical excitation) below with no excitation can bring back the crystallinity?

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the longevity of amorphous metal

I have been recently introduced to this new concept of amorphous solids, in particular, amorphous metals, and I came up with the following problems that could not be answered with my somewhat intensive search:

I gathered that many of amorphous solids are made by quickly cooling the liquid material, thereby giving it no time to form any long-range order (crystallinity). So it makes a perfect sense that when high heat is applied to amorphous solid, it will regain its crystallinity, and will no longer be glassy.

But is this behavior non-continuous? That is, can sustained low thermal excitation give rise to the crystallinity in amorphous solids given enough time? Or is there a threshold temperature (or a level of thermal/mechanical excitation) below with no excitation can bring back the crystallinity?

Thanks bunch in advance!