How does this really equate to crystals forming on cooling. Surely the formation of crystal structures is a lower energy state than that of the disordered atoms. Therefore instead of entropy increasing it decreases as the atoms take up there place in a lattice. I know I am missing something
How does this really equate to crystals forming on cooling. Surely the formation of crystal structures is a lower energy state than that of the disordered atoms. Therefore instead of entropy increasing it decreases as the atoms take up there place in a lattice. I know I am missing something