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helltonetoday at 5:11 AM3 repliesview on HN

I thought glass was a solid?


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evaneykelentoday at 6:41 AM

I lived in a house built around 1605 in the Netherlands, with some of the windows being hundreds of years old, based on expert opinion. The glass had started to droop downward in certain places, almost like the resin you see in trees. It made me realize that glass is not as rigid as I thought.

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Eji1700today at 5:28 AM

It's an amorphous solid last time I dove into this.

The "well it's technically a liquid!" because it "flows" is really not telling the whole story. Like most science, it's just more complex than can be quickly summarized with one sentence, and doesn't quite map to just high school simplifications.

vlovich123today at 5:12 AM

Nope, lots of fluids that just flow over such a long period they appear solid.

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