Theoretical method for non-crystalline growth

A method of agglomeration of atomic units is developed to investigate some important features of the statistical processes that take place when a glass is formed. In particular, by allowing several free valences to be saturated in a single agglomeration step, the growth is non-dendritic. The process becomes non-linear, and it has to be treated self-consistently. The sites whose bonds are completely saturated in each step become important and their final concentration changes abruptly at the transition temperature for any value of the modifier concentration.