Sunday, May 12, 2024

Fact or Fiction?: Glass Is a (Supercooled) Liquid

Fact or Fiction?: Glass Is a (Supercooled) Liquid

Glass, however, is actually neither a liquid—super cooled or otherwise—nor a solid. It is an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter. And yet glass's liquid like properties are not enough to explain the thicker-bottomed windows, because glass atoms move too slowly for changes to be visible


 


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