Talk:Amorphous solid
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Flowing
Should there be a mention of the urban legend that glass flows?
"Do Cathedral Glasses Flow?", Am. J. Phys. v66, pp 392-396, May, 1998
http://www.glassnotes.com/WindowPanes.html
http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/articles/property_glass.html
http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/people/ystokes/windows.html
- There is one in the glass page, but I'll make mention of it in this article.--Polyparadigm 02:00, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Ice
Ice is an amorphous solid?
Acegikmo1 14:41, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I've removed it, along with other substances that I'm fairly sure aren't amorphous solids, from the article. Acegikmo1 00:13, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Glass: substance or another word for amorpheus solid
The article is a little confusing because it contains several inconsistent definitions of the word glass. In the first half of the article it refers to a liquid that is cooled below the [glass transition temperature]], but in the second half it refers to common glass
Supercool vs Glass transition
Some liquids have a glass transition temperature that is higher than the melting point. This means that you can create a glass without supercooling the liquids. Therefore the following sentence is wrong
"Glass is often referred to as a 'super-cooled' liquid.".
However it is correct to write that "Some substances can only be cooled below the glass transition temperature if they are supercooled."
The definition
An amorphous solid is a solid in which there is no long-range order of the positions of the atoms. (Solids in which there is long-range atomic order are called crystalline solids.)
Should we write "an amorphous solid is a solid in which the position of the atoms is in short-range order without long-range order"? Roscoe x 13:31, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)