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Martian
I wonder why people don't double-check facts before putting them up?
Glass is a solid.
Actually it is a liquid since it never can solidifies. New research is trying to use this same properties to make new forms of metals.
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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 matter — somewhere between liquid and solid — that moves very slowly. Like cars in a traffic jam, atoms in a glass are in something like suspended animation, unable to reach their destination because the route is blocked by their neighbors.
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