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Under which situations can an amorphous substance change to crystalline form?

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Amorphous substance like glass change to crystalline form by a process called devitrification. It is a very slow process and is constantly going on in a sample of glass. Glass panels of century old churches are found to become milky in appearance due to some crystallisation of glass.
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