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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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