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Install the app to watch our videos and get a crystal clear understanding of concepts Install Now. Harshit Rawat Jul 12, A refractive index measurement is taken for crystal calcite and amorphous solid glass at a single wavelength keeping the direction fixed at the x-axis.
For the crystal calcite, the values ranged from 1. When the direction of the measurement changed, the values changed drastically for calcite but remained the same for glass at 1. Anisotropy is observed in crystalline solids because the concentration of the atoms is different in different directions of the unit cell. If you look along the X-axis, the concentration of particles around it is different than the distribution of atoms around the y-axis and same is for the z-axis.
As the concentration of the particles in a particular direction of the crystal changes, therefore, the measurement of physical property changes depending on the direction of the measurement. Amorphous solids have a tightly packed random arrangement of the constituent particles, unlike the crystalline solids that have a fixed arrangement of atoms in a crystal lattice. Due to the random arrangement, the distribution of particles would be widely different along each axis. Amorphous solids are said to be isotropic, and crystalline solids are anisotropic for their physical property measurements.
Isotropy comes from the Greek word; iso means same and tropos means direction. Due to the some regular arrangement of atoms and molecules in all directions the physical properties do change in the opposite direction. And we already know that the isotropic solids have the same physical properties in all the directions.
Thus we can say that crystalline solids are not isotropic. Crystalline solids have well-defined edges and faces, diffract x-rays, and tend to have sharp melting points. In contrast, amorphous solids have irregular or curved surfaces, do not give well-resolved x-ray diffraction patterns, and melt over a wide range of temperatures.
Nearly all single crystal systems are anisotropic with respect to mechanical properties, with Tungsten being a very notable exception, as it is a cubic metal with stiffness tensor coefficients that exist in the proper ratio to allow for mechanical isotropy. In a single crystal, the physical and mechanical properties often differ with orientation.
When a material is formed, the grains are usually distorted and elongated in one or more directions which makes the material anisotropic. Glass and metals are examples of isotropic materials. What is the reason for isotropy in amorphous solids? Ask Question.
Asked 4 years, 4 months ago. Active 1 year, 1 month ago. Viewed 28k times. The reason for these has been explained with a diagram as: Crystalline solids are anisotropic in nature, that is, some of their physical properties like electrical resistance or refractive index show different values when measured along different directions in the same crystals.
Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Jamil Ahmed Jamil Ahmed 3 3 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. It's not disarranged in any direction more than in another. It's isotropic because it's uniformly disarranged in all orientations. It will not affect properties of purely scalar in nature, like density, for example. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Ps: Ignore my poor drawing skills. Improve this answer.
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