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ProfessorGAC

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18. The Glass One Is Wrong

Reply to geardaddy (Original post)

Wed Nov 12, 2014, 04:34 PM

Nov 2014

Amorphous solids, because they have no electronically bonded crystal structure, have fluid properties and they do in fact flow at less than glacial rates.

The rheology of amorphous solids is extremely difficult to measure and predict but the physical chemistry concepts that reflect flow properties are very well established and are not refutable.

So, it's not just "badly made glass".

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