Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Glass: A New Look at an Old Substance

"Metallic Glass Could Revolutionize Aircraft Structure"
FOXNews (June 24, 2008)

" Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the bizarre properties of glass, which behaves at times like both a solid and a liquid.

"The finding could lead to aircraft that look like Wonder Woman's plane. Such planes could have wings of glass or something called metallic glass, rather than being totally invisible.

"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...."

This is an exciting development in materials technology: and a fascinating look at our current state of knowledge about glass: a substance that's not a solid, not a liquid, but is - glass.

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