Predicting when a solid will melt is harder than you think
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Physicists may finally have an answer to a seemingly simple question that has gone unanswered for nearly a century: When does matter melt?
Kostya Trachenko Queen Mary University of London says it is strange that “in this age of evolving science and technology” physicists do not always know how to predict at what temperature and pressure a substance will melt. I discovered that there is. He has now derived equations that can be used to make such predictions over vast areas.
Source: www.newscientist.com
