8. AtomsNo. 08.05
Crystal Lattice
In a crystal, atoms are lined up in a pattern that repeats over and over, like tiles on a floor.
Handling
Tap to send a wave through it. Hands-on: push a slice up or down; it springs back.
Its tag
- Shelf
- 8. Atoms
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
On the wall it weighs 12.5 KB: 1,023 splats, fitted to pictures of the full Splash, which opens with 499,904.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Send a wave through | Tap | ||
| Wave | Button | ||
| Crystal | List | 11 choices | Salt (NaCl) |
About it
In a crystal, atoms are lined up in a pattern that repeats over and over, like tiles on a floor. In table salt, sodium and chlorine take turns in rows of little cubes. Diamond and graphite are both pure carbon: in diamond each atom holds on to four others, which makes it very hard, while graphite's flat sheets slide apart, which is why a pencil writes.
Tap it to send a wave through it: a ripple runs across, each slice of atoms rising and falling in turn, the bonds between them stretching and bending. Sound and heat travel through solids as waves like this. In ice, the water molecules spread out into an open pattern, so ice floats on water. Metals, quartz and graphene are in the Splash tab too.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,041 at Low, and up to 720,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Steel chain soft drop (crystal-lattice-chain.mp3) | ani_music | CC0 1.0 |
