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Grain boundary Lesson/Tutorial | As a metal or a ceramic cools from a liquid to a solid, many individual crystals/grains form in different positions and directions. Because of the different directions the grains do not match up perfectly. This atomic mismatch between the grains is called a grain boundary. |
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