![]() ![]() Liquid crystals share with liquids the ability to flow but also display symmetries inherited from crystalline solids. Between the crystalline solid at low temperatures and the ordinary liquid state at high temperatures lies an intermediate state, the liquid crystal. Some solids actually melt twice or more as temperature rises. Ordinary solids melt into ordinary liquids as the temperature increases- e.g., ice melts into liquid water. Liquids can flow, for example, while solids cannot, and crystalline solids possess special symmetry properties that liquids lack. Liquid crystal, substance that blends the structures and properties of the normally disparate liquid and crystalline solid states.
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