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Neutrons detect order in glasses
Kurt Bindersubject
Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed MatterAncient egyptMaterials scienceCondensed matter physicsOrder (business)General Physics and AstronomyNeutronCondensed Matter::Disordered Systems and Neural NetworksAmorphous soliddescription
The first glassy material was probably made in ancient Egypt some 4500 years ago, so the fact that the structure of glass is still one of the biggest puzzles in physics may come as a surprise. When a liquid is cooled very quickly, the atoms do not have time to arrange themselves into an ordered crystalline solid. Instead, the super cooled liquid falls out of equilibrium and into a disordered amorphous network, more commonly known as a glass.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-07-01 | Physics World |