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That's interesting. I was also taught glass is a liquid. We should correct people when they say it's a liquid OR a solid, because neither is correct; but I th
by throw7 11y ago
That's interesting. I was also taught glass is a liquid.
We should correct people when they say it's a liquid OR a solid, because neither is correct; but I think we should not be so critical/furious if someone calls glass a supercooled liquid, etc. (ref: Tamman "frozen super-cooled liquid", the article: "a particular type of liquid").
Calling it an "amorphous solid" is obviously the currently accepted formal physicist category of course.