Molten metal solidifies into a new kind of glass
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 05:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —When a molten material cools quickly, parts of it may have enough time to grow into orderly crystals. But if the cooling rate is too fast for the entire melt to crystallize, the remaining material ends up in a non-crystalline state known as a glass, with atoms caught in place essentially as a frozen liquid.