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A Close Look at Melting Crystals (1 of 4)

Caption: A liquid nucleus and a strong-vibration region are coalescing. Red represents strong vibration, blue represents weak vibration. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 5, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Ziren Wang at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, China, and colleagues was titled, "Imaging the Homogeneous Nucleation During the Melting of Superheated Colloidal Crystals."

Credit: Image courtesy of Ziren Wang

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