A Plane With Wings Of Glass?
Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 23:28
in Physics & Chemistry
Glass is actually a "jammed" state of matter that moves very slowly. Like cars in a traffic jam, atoms in a glass can't reach their destination because the route is blocked by their neighbors, so it never quite becomes a "proper" solid. Now scientists have revealed that glass "fails" to be a solid due to the special atomic structures that form in a glass when it cools.