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| In this section the processes that give rise to condensed phases will be discussed. Materials science is concerned with solids, and these may be either crystalline or amorphous. Two viewpoints will be advanced: the thermodynamic viewpoint that is unconcerned with the microscopic constituents of the solid and the atomic viewpoint in which the details of atom-atom interactions are considered. Some material properties that are directly related to bonding type will also be discussed. | ||||||||||||||