Question
Amorphous solids do not have sharp melting points. Explain.
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Answer
- Amorphous solids do not have perfectly ordered crystalline structure.
- They have short range order of regular pattern hence periodically repeating regular pattern is over a short distance.
- The thermal energy required to break the structure and separate constituent particles is not uniform.
- Hence the temperature needed to melt the solid is not same, therefore amorphous solids do not have sharp melting points but melt over a range of temperature.
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