Types and Properties of Solids

• Crystalline solids have a highly regular arrangement of particles, while amorphous solids have a considerable disorder in their structure
• Amorphous solids, such as glass, are formed rapidly
• Amorphous solids do not have time to align or organize in to a more crystalline lattice
• Crystalline solids have a well-defined crystal lattice
• A lattice is a 3d system of points designating the position of the components that make up a crystal
• A unit cell is the smallest repeating unit of lattice