Editing Freezing (section)

==Vitrification==
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Certain materials, such as [[glass]] and [[glycerol]], may harden without crystallizing; these are called [[amorphous solid]]s. Amorphous materials, as well as some polymers, do not have a freezing point, as there is no abrupt phase change at any specific temperature. Instead, there is a gradual change in their [[Viscoelasticity|viscoelastic]] properties over a range of temperatures. Such materials are characterized by a glass transition that occurs at a [[glass transition temperature]], which may be roughly defined as the "knee" point of the material's density vs. temperature graph. Because vitrification is a non-equilibrium process, it does not qualify as freezing, which requires an equilibrium between the crystalline and liquid state.