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Liquid Crystals

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Under polarized light, liquid crystals show brilliant colors that depend on the liquid thickness and dark lines caused by defects where molecules cannot align in the crystal.

A layer of liquid crystals can be deformed in three different ways.

Liquid crystals in spherical shells undergo a phase transition.

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