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The state of order of polymers can extend from the completely random (amorphous) to the completely ordered (ideally crystalline). The physical structures occurring depend not only on the constitution and configuration of the molecules and the micro- and macroconformations caused by these, but also on the experimental conditions. In other words, the observed solid state physical structures do not generally correspond to states at equilibrium. Thus, for example, a distinction must be made between crystallinity and crystallizability. The crystallizability is governed by the constitution and configuration and not by the crystallization conditions. As a thermodynamic equilibrium state it only depends on temperature and pressure. The crystallinity, conversely, is strongly influenced by the crystallization conditions; it includes frozen-in states of inequilibrium, and is always less than the cyrstallizability.
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Elias, HG. (1984). Supermolecular Structures. In: Macromolecules · 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7367-8_5
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