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Totally naive layman's question: If the phonon and spin contributions cancel out, would it be possible to build a material in which the "negative" contributor i
by moring 3y ago
Totally naive layman's question: If the phonon and spin contributions cancel out, would it be possible to build a material in which the "negative" contributor is larger and which therefore shrinks when heated?
- el_oni 3y agoThere are some materials like this, it's called negative thermal expansion in materials science, the wikipedia page [0] on it has some examples of materials where this is the case. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_thermal_expansion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_thermal_expansion