Re: ATM Thermal effects and a question

["Christine J. Killian" <Christine.J.Killian@cdc.com>]

For more information regarding how glass is not a liquid and does not flow
at room temperature, please check out:

http://www.heimbaugh.com/science/glass.flow/

-Christine

Michael J. Coslo writes:
~ 
~ 
~ >For glass it wouldn't matter.  Has somebody once pointed out, Edmund's
~ >sells blanks that are so-called "double annealed", made from glass that
~ >has already been annealed once.  But that's nonsense.  Glass is a liquid
~ >(even at room temperature--just put a weight in the middle of your
~ >mirror and wait a couple thousand years--talk about cold pressing) and
~ >when you heat it to where it flows it forgets all about any stress it
~ >might have had or had relieved in the past.
~ 
~       The old glass as liquid debate is here again! Glass is a
~ non-crystalline solid. A rather strange solid though.
~