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Bizarre Properties of Glass Allow Creation of "Metallic Glass"
VindictivePantz writes to mention that scientists have discovered some bizarre properties of glass and are already applying that knowledge to create what is being called "metallic glass." "The breakthrough involved solving the decades-old problem of just what glass is. It has been known that that despite its solid appearance, glass and gels are actually in a 'jammed' state of matter — somewhere between liquid and solid — that moves very slowly. Like cars in a traffic jam, atoms in a glass are in something like suspended animation, unable to reach their destination because the route is blocked by their neighbors. So even though glass is a hard substance, it never quite becomes a proper solid, according to chemists and materials scientists."
How bizarre.
Beam me up, Scotty!
Is this the aluminium glass that Scotty spoke of?
Meh
So am I according to an ex-girlfriend. Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal. Tip your waitstaff.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
How bizarre.
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.
Either way, be prepared to see them as band names any minute now. Or perhaps the band name is "Metallic Glass", thier first album is "Transparent Aluminum"
In my very best Canadian/pseudo-Scottish accent, "Hello computer..."
Maybe you've developped an astigmatism.
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
... residents of glass houses may now throw stones.
Have gnu, will travel.
Maybe he's developed astigmatism.
Yeah, this article had me rolling my eyes... the "journalist" basically strung a bunch of urban legends together, and didn't even bother to use a grammar checker. He should be fired and made into a Fox News anchor.
Jeremy
Screw all your Trekkies!
Transparisteel
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Transparisteel
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Get that glass to about 1300 degrees Fahrenheit and you can mold it like slightly-hard silly putty.
Great, now my hands are all burnt up. But I've got this really cool glass to .... hold with my feet!
Karnal
Your Jedi mind tricks won't work on us, Physics weenie! Embrace the dark side. And yes, the Physics guys do hate us because applied physics isn't as sexy as blasting muons apart in super-colliders.
What would Richard Feynman do, if he were here right now? He'd do some math and he'd follow through!
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