What is a Material Another Look

Our present claim is the argument that for many purposes, the set of quantities that we have labeled material parameters are exactly our answer to the question of what is a material. 

In the analysis which fills these pages, we have now seen that there are many different ways to organize our understanding of materials. First, it is possible to be descriptive in a way that emphasizes structure in materials, with special attention being given to the realization that there is an intimate connection between structure and properties. We have now seen that defects and their assemblies 

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