Is glass solid or liquid? justify.....?

Answer 1

Glass is an amorphous solid that has an extremely high viscosity constant. I belive that its definition of solid or liquid depends upon your frame of reference. If you are human, and relatively short-lived (<100 years), it appears to be a solid. If you are very long-lived (> 1,000 years), it would appear to be a liquid as it would flow, albeit very slowly, downhill like a liquid.

Answer 2

That is like asking if steel is liquid or solid. It starts as a solid, becomes a liquid then a solid in finished form.

Answer 3

It's a solid becuase it keeps its shape. Technically, it's an amorphous solid. However, it can also be a liquid. They mould glass into different shapes by heating it up into a shapable solid, and sometimes to a liquid. Do you know that glass is made from sand? They superheat sand, then form it into the shape they want.

Answer 4

Glass is a liquid. It does not have the crystalline molecular structure required of a solid, and it does flow, albeit very slowly. That means it's a highly viscuous liquid.

Answer 5

It is a solid at room temperature using common and ordinary definitions.

It is liquid at temperatures beyond melting temperature of the particular glass.

If you apply a force (gravity included), it will change shape - even if very little and slowly. In that sense, it can be stated that it is in "plastic" state - that is, somewhere between solid and liquid.

Answer 6

It's actually a very viscous liquid. Look at old panes of glass (100 years old) the glass at the bottom is thicker and it results in a somewhat distorted image as you look through it.

Answer 7

i don't have the proof, but i remember from school that it is a very slow moving liquid. if you ever find really old houses, like 75 to 100 yrs old, the glass in the windows is thicker at the bottom than the top. it moves very slowly.

Answer 8

If you mean glass as in a glass cup like you put something to drink in it...........I'd have to say that it depends...we have a glass maker in my town and I have seen him make a fish...he says that the oven the glass is in is over 1,000 degrees farenhite...so in that matter it would be a liquid...but if it's a glass like to hold drinks...then it's a solid...

Signed,
Riley's Girl

Answer 9

Ok, so a little research has led me to rethink the previously held theory that glass still flows, hence the bottom of century old panes are thicker. Please see this link...it has cool pictures and will explain why glass in really a specialized solid in a classification of its own.

Answer 10

it liquid made in to a solid