what are an amorphous metal is?

Question

what is the reasons for amorphous competitiveness?

Answer 1

Below is the definition from the wikipedia article. The competitiveness of amorphous metals is that they are easy to process - injection molding at heat [as opposed to casting or machining] allows these metals to be used in sports equipment, inner-corpul parts such as artificial joints, and other medical equipment.

This is a great question.


"An amorphous metal is a metallic material with a disordered atomic-scale structure. In contrast to most metals, which are crystalline and therefore have a highly ordered arrangement of atoms, amorphous alloys are non-crystalline. Materials in which such a disordered structure is produced directly from the liquid state during cooling are called "glasses", and so amorphous metals are commonly referred to as "metallic glasses" or "glassy metals". However, there are several other ways in which amorphous metals can be produced, including physical vapor deposition, solid-state reaction, ion irradiation, and mechanical alloying. Amorphous metals produced by these techniques are, strictly speaking, not glasses, but materials scientists commonly consider amorphous alloys to be a single class of materials, regardless of how they are prepared."

Answer 2

amorphous metal, as the previous person stated, is a metal that does not have any shape and tend to be liquid-like.

The reason they are like that is because they are not pure metals (made up of one kind of metal) but are alloys. There are many different sized atoms in these alloys since it's not pure, and that allows for the atoms to move around a lot.

So think about it like this. Salt is a cube shape, and it retains that shape becaue all the NaCl are alined and linked together perfectly. (also has to do with their bonds too.) Amorphous metals have all these different sized atoms in it that they can't align and link together to form any shape so the atoms freely float around and you have a metal that doesn't have a shape.

Answer 3

an amorphous metal is a metal which doesn't have a constant shape!....Don't expect it to be square-shaped, tetrahedron or whatever!....It juz don't have any shape!... ;)