can you super cool sand to form glass?

Question

as in you can make glass with heat yes but can you actually or hypotheicaly cool it to form glass? doesnt seem like the molucules
would spred out enough to do that but hey what do i know ? haha

Answer 1

Get a hint from small silicia rocks in the REALLY deep cold outer space. They don't turn into glasses, don't they?

Answer 2

It is difficult to fuse sand into glass even at high temperatures. It is easier to melt existing (scrap?) glass and add sand to it which will dissolve into the molten glass. That is why recycling glass is a win-win situation. Cooling sand would remove energy from the electrons orbiting the sand (quartz) molecules and slow down vibrations between molecules making it far less likely that the sand will fuse into glass. Supercooling the sand would remove energy to an extreme.