Materials Science, Glasses: History
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Glasses are solid amorphous materials which transform into liquids upon heating through the glass transition. The solid-like behaviour of glasses is separated from the liquid-like behaviour at higher temperatures by the glass transition temperature, Tg.

  • Glasses

Glasses are solid amorphous materials which transform into liquids upon heating through the glass transition. The solid-like behaviour of glasses is separated from the liquid-like behaviour at higher temperatures by the glass transition temperature, Tg[1].

Glasses are irreplaceable in the day-by-day life with important technological, medical and scientific applications including physics, chemistry, biology, geology as well as artistic and decorative uses. Glasses are typically formed on enough rapid cooling of molten materials therefore, following Michael Faraday, the glass can be defined as a solid solution of different substances one in another. Glasses are also formed and occur naturally for example volcanic glasses such as obsidians.

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  1. Richet, P., Conradt, R., Takada, A., Dyon, J. . Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture. ; Richet, P., Conradt, R., Takada, A., Dyon, J. , Eds.; Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2021; pp. 1568 p..
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