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A Cool Way to Make Glass

Posted February 02, 2011 2:15 PM

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:

By cooling glass to a temperature near Absolute Zero (-459.67 degrees Fahrenheit), professor Eran Rabani of Tel Aviv University is demonstrating that, at the quantum level, glass exhibits a very different behavior than might be expected from traditional physics -- in fact, it melts.

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Re: A Cool Way to Make Glass

02/02/2011 2:56 PM

Limited practical application or not, that's rather cool!

No pun intended.
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