Ask Yan - Is glass a slow moving liquid?
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Asked by Paul from Bristol, 13 February 2010
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Dr Yan employs a jelly and a blow torch to explain why solid glass can seem less than… solid.
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The short answer is no, glass is an amorphous solid!
The slightly longer answer is that glass is indeed an amorphous solid which means the range of its crystalline order is some where between that of a solid and that of liquid.
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