This is an honest answer. I heard that glass can't be really considered a solid because it has certain properties that solids don't. For example if you were to leave a glass pane standing upright for a few hundred years the bottom of the glass pane will be thicker than the top of the pane. As if the glass was slowly oozing down.
2006-09-15 19:55:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Glass display both properties of solids and liquids. While it is rigid and has a constant volume and shape (for the most part) the molecules that is composed of are not as closely held together as other solids, for example plastic. These molecules have more available space to move, thus the glass molecules, over time, will have shifted to the bottom
2006-09-15 20:21:22 · answer #1 · answered by Eric M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
solid question. In a "0-gravity" atmosphere, in case you spurt drops of water into the air, the water droplets will stay stay mutually and drift around like little sphere. Why is this? Its via fact there is not any aparrent rigidity (gravity, atmospheric rigidity) latest. in case you are attempting this on the earth, the water will drop to the floor and bypass. All components ("solids, gases, drinks") are concern to to flowing interior the presence of a rigidity, some components require a plenty greater advantageous rigidity than others till you will see a reaction nevertheless. look at chocolate, if its in a candy bar, its solid. once you positioned some rigidity on it, it will finally soften and bypass. contained related to glass, gravity and atmospheric rigidity are appearing upon it. The rigidity is making the glass reorder and circulate to a decrease thermodynamic state. So in essence, its a solid that flows (very slowly) or a pretty viscous liquid (which has been reported formerly), its all semantics.
2016-10-15 01:27:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glass is an amorphous solid, so it does flow a bit, like the old glass example you mentioned (although I've heard that before too, I haven't seen a reliable source that substantiates this claim). You can melt amorphous solids but they lack sharply defined melting points and density changes like crystalline solids do, and they have no latent heat of fusion. Amorphous solids differ from crystalline solids in that they lack an ordered arrangement of the molecules; they are random similar to a liquid. Only certain types of materials form amorphous solids (e.g. glass, plastic).
In a nutshell, glass is neither a solid or a liquid -- it's an amorphous solid.
2006-09-15 20:34:18 · answer #3 · answered by got_tent 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Solid
2006-09-15 20:15:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its because sand and limestone is heated to become a liquid and then sets to become glass and it will only reliquidise if its in high temperatures. so no it wont be thicker at the bottom after a hundred years unless its in a hot area
2006-09-15 20:00:40 · answer #5 · answered by kevin d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Glass behaves more like a solid becuase it can't conform to any shape like a liquid can.
2006-09-15 20:08:07 · answer #6 · answered by Rob S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, glass is a super-cooled form of silica.A supercooled liquid is a metastable liquid that has been cooled below its melting point (Tm) but not below the temperature at which a dynamic arrest occurs (i.e., the glass-transition temperature, Tg).
2006-09-15 23:49:43 · answer #7 · answered by Innocence Redefined 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
when glass is "glass" it's in a solid state of course but when its heated, its liquid. simple science
2006-09-15 20:01:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You ever heard of plasma? Glass could be considered like plasma, or a solid, or a liquid.
2006-09-15 19:57:32 · answer #9 · answered by marco 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
solid man..most of the properties show it.
2006-09-15 20:02:24 · answer #10 · answered by tonima 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋