Partial dislocation
Decomposed form of dislocation that occurs within a crystalline material / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the syntactic operation, see Dislocation (syntax). For the medical term, see Joint dislocation.
In materials science, a partial dislocation is a decomposed form of dislocation that occurs within a crystalline material. An extended dislocation is a dislocation that has dissociated into a pair of partial dislocations. The vector sum of the Burgers vectors of the partial dislocations is the Burgers vector of the extended dislocation.
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