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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Solid solution?

Definition 8.4 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 8 — Binary Solid–Liquid Diagrams

A solid solution is a single crystalline phase of variable composition, in which atoms of one component replace atoms of the other on the sites of the same lattice (substitutional) or occupy the holes of that lattice (interstitial).

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