The wonders of.... water (science article)

[JR8]

I found this article very thought provoking. It reminded me of the day I learned that glass is a not a solid, but a ('super-cooled') liquid. I.e. given time a pane of glass will become thicker at the bottom that the top. Both are very contrary to popularly perceived wisdom
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http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/ ... refighters
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'H20 is so common and so familiar that it is mundane, yet the more we examine this liquid, the stranger it gets, as its molecular attributes hide peculiarities that make its behaviour improbable and astonishing.' [continues]

[nakatago]

glass is a not a solid, but a ('super-cooled') liquid. I.e. given time a pane of glass will become thicker at the bottom that the top. Both are very contrary to popularly perceived wisdom

Urban legend. Reason is, those glass panes weren't completely set when they were moved, thus allowing some of the still-liquid glass to slightly pool at the bottom.

http://engineering.mit.edu/ask/how-does ... -over-time
http://io9.com/the-glass-is-a-liquid-my ... -496190894
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4 ... s2809.html

[JR8]

Urban legend.

Or more of an historic misunderstanding prior to a point of informed enlightenment?
[And it informed me too, So thanks!]

p.s. that's re:glass, I still find the water article interesting.... though mebbe you'll debunk that one too...

[x9200]

Eeee. Ok. I will not say anything.

[nakatago]

Urban legend.

Or more of an historic misunderstanding prior to a point of informed enlightenment?
[And it informed me too, So thanks!]

p.s. that's re:glass, I still find the water article interesting.... though mebbe you'll debunk that one too...

Nah...water is weird.