New Scientist TV: Time-lapse Tuesday: Shaking nails mimic melting crystals: According to Morris, the parallels are surprising because the shaking only roughly equates to an increase in temperature and the different stages are not equilibrium states.
"Since the nails lose energy on collisions, we must continuously feed energy in via the shaking," Morris said. "So this is a very non-thermodynamic situation, yet we observe more or less the same phases as in liquid crystals."
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