Is aluminium crystalline or polycrystalline as a) a solid b) a liquid?

Subject: Is aluminium crystalline or polycrystalline as a) a solid b) a liquid?

Date: Wed Dec 29 15:18:11 2004
Posted by anonymous
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Area of science: Physics
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I'm doing a physics project on aluminium and I have read contradicting 
information in textbooks. Some say that all metals are crystalline as solids. 
Some say that as a liquid, metals are perfectly crystalline, but as they cool 
and solidify polycrystalline grains form. I'm confused!

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