Do you really know what glass is?

By Ida Emilie Steinmark2018-01-11T12:05:00

Stained Glass window depicting Catholic saints in the Cathedral of Saint Bavo in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium, including Jesus, Saint Paul and Saint Joseph

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The glass debate resurfaces and it’s never crystal clear. Why do we care about its label anyway?

Ida Emilie Steinmark holds a lens to the latest definitions of glass. A solid? A liquid? Something else? In September, material scientists Edgar Zanotto and John Mauro set out to convince the world of a new definition that, once again, reignited the glass debate.

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