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unusual facts about unit cell



Peierls stress

Peierls stress is the force (first discovered by Rudolf Peierls and modified by Frank Nabarro) needed to move a dislocation within a plane of atoms in the unit cell.


see also

CP4

cP4, the Pearson symbol used in crystallography to describe a specific cubic crystal structure with four atoms in the unit cell

Ferroics

In ferroelectrics, upon lowering the temperature below T c, a spontaneous dipole moment is induced along an axis of the unit cell.

Pitty

Besides being released on CD, DVD, and DualDisc, the record was also released in a unit cell model, the result of a partnership with Nokia.