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Subject: Can you crystallize glass?

Date: Wed Oct 12 10:17:31 2005
Posted by steve
Grade level: grad (science) School: emory
City: atlanta State/Province: ga Country: usa
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1129137451.Ph
Message:

Excerpt from Chris Reiter to preface my question:

"Finally, to my knowledge, there are no substances that do not 
freeze.  You could make a good argument that glasses do not freeze, but 
this is again the exception that proves the rule.  Glasses, in the 
simplest sense, are fluids that have cooled so fast that they have not had 
the chance to crystallize.  I don’t know if there exists any experimental 
evidence to back me up, but theoretically, if given the time (like 50 
bazillion years), glasses will eventually crystallize and “freeze.”"

-My question:
Say you took a blob of hot liquid glass and put it immediately into a zero K 
chamber, would the glass explode, implode, or crystallize and fall as sand 
like particles>?


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