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  2. Crystal polymorphism - Wikipedia

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    Phase transitions (phase changes) that help describe polymorphism include polymorphic transitions as well as melting and vaporization transitions. According to IUPAC, a polymorphic transition is "A reversible transition of a solid crystalline phase at a certain temperature and pressure (the inversion point) to another phase of the same chemical composition with a different crystal structure."

  3. Exact solutions in general relativity - Wikipedia

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    These tensor fields should obey any relevant physical laws (for example, any electromagnetic field must satisfy Maxwell's equations).Following a standard recipe which is widely used in mathematical physics, these tensor fields should also give rise to specific contributions to the stress–energy tensor. [1]

  4. Allotropes of iron - Wikipedia

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    An alternate stable form, if it exists, may appear at pressures of at least 50 GPa and temperatures of at least 1,500 K; it has been thought to have an orthorhombic or a double hcp structure. [1] As of December 2011 [update] , recent and ongoing experiments are being conducted on high-pressure and superdense carbon allotropes .

  5. Representation theory of the Lorentz group - Wikipedia

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    The four-momentum of a particle (either massless or massive) transforms under the (⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠, ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠) representation, a four-vector. A physical example of a (1,1) traceless symmetric tensor field is the traceless [nb 15] part of the energy–momentum tensor T μν. [66] [nb 16]

  6. Nuclear transmutation - Wikipedia

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    The term transmutation dates back to alchemy.Alchemists pursued the philosopher's stone, capable of chrysopoeia – the transformation of base metals into gold. [3] While alchemists often understood chrysopoeia as a metaphor for a mystical or religious process, some practitioners adopted a literal interpretation and tried to make gold through physical experimentation.

  7. Metamorphism - Wikipedia

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    However, at atmospheric pressure, kyanite transforms to andalusite at a temperature of about 190 °C (374 °F). Andalusite, in turn, transforms to sillimanite when the temperature reaches about 800 °C (1,470 °F). At pressures above about 4 kbar (400 MPa), kyanite transforms directly to sillimanite as the temperature increases. [20]

  8. Energy transformation - Wikipedia

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    Energy transformation, also known as energy conversion, is the process of changing energy from one form to another. [1] In physics , energy is a quantity that provides the capacity to perform work or moving (e.g. lifting an object) or provides heat .

  9. Hamiltonian mechanics - Wikipedia

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    The Lagrangian is thus a function on the jet bundle J over E; taking the fiberwise Legendre transform of the Lagrangian produces a function on the dual bundle over time whose fiber at t is the cotangent space T ∗ E t, which comes equipped with a natural symplectic form, and this latter function is the Hamiltonian.