Re: Re: ATM Why use glass?]

[William Mc Hale <wmchal1@umbc.edu>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Richard wrote:

>
> Of course ice is a liquid.  How do glaciers "flow" under high pressure?

Ice is not a liquid, it is very definitely a solid complete with a
crystal structure (anyone ever look at a snow flake under a microscope?)

The reason glaciers flow is that they are not all ice.  The amount of
pressure in a glacier is so great that parts of it are liquid thus
allowing the solid parts to flow.

Bill

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