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For all the smart people out there...
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 9:43 pm
by Kazer0
There is an ongoing topic in the science world.... Is glass a liquid or a solid. Dont jusrt say solid, it is liquid. Look it up. Whatyou think it is?
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 9:45 pm
by wardrich
how could it be a liquid???
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 9:47 pm
by Kazer0
If you can read .pdf files, look here for an explination on how its a liquid
http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/IRG-GLASS/G ... guised.pdf
Its there. Im right.
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 9:50 pm
by Da_Goat
because the molecules move faster than solids and atoms are more compact, like liquids (or something like that). Anyway, I'm not into scientific crap, so I say it's a solid

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 10:30 pm
by Nanobot
I'm not currently set up to read PDF files, and I don't feel like downloading anything for it right now...
Anyway, I say that it depends on your definition of solid. Is the term solid used to describe an object whose atoms don't jump around as much as... well... a liquid? Or is the term used to describe something that is free-standing with an absolute shape?
Technicality, I say.
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 7:14 am
by John The Ax
Science says glass is a liquid, because it flows, just slowly. But, I don't give a damn what the hell science says, glass is enough of a solid for me.
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 7:46 am
by Jean
Way back when I was in school and my pet dinosaur walked to school with me, my teacher told me that glass was a liquid. This debate must have been going on a very long time.

Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 8:59 am
by John The Ax
Look, everything will eventually flow. Marble in benches flows. YOu might as well redifine liquid.
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 10:09 am
by 486 player
In solid atoms don't move, just are shakin'.
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 2:04 pm
by Oz
my book written by a Dr. Karl Kruselnicki of australia defines glass as a solid, but a solid that will eventually flow. in ten million years, a 1m-tall pane of glass will shrink by 1 cm.
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 3:28 pm
by lakerzz8
thank you Dr. Karl Kruselnicki you are the best!!lol
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 5:37 pm
by Dogbreath
Glass is melted sand. It is melted down at about 3000 degrees until it is gooey, then it is molded into a glass pane and remains "almost dry". Either way, it doesn't really matter.
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 1:39 pm
by Oz
and 486 player, the atoms in a solid don't shake if they are cooled to absolute zero, 0 kelvin, or -273'C.
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 6:13 pm
by Nanobot
Oz wrote:and 486 player, the atoms in a solid don't shake if they are cooled to absolute zero, 0 kelvin, or -273'C.
The only problem with that is gravity is a strong enough force to shatter it into bazillions of tiny pieces. Now THAT'S really breakable glass.
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:25 pm
by King Of Shibby!
Lets leave it at this, glass is a silquid, OK?
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 11:55 pm
by Da_Goat
sounds good to me.
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:00 am
by 486 player
Oz, did thou know that -1 K's warmer than +1 K?
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 10:00 pm
by webmaster from hell
Talk about confusing.