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jacquesm
on April 22, 2018
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Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of m...
No, alloys with some of the properties of glass in terms of atomic arrangement but not transparent.
amelius
on April 22, 2018
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Breakable, and not transparent? Sounds like the worst of two worlds ... ;)
jacquesm
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Harder, hard to corrode. Those are important properties and you could always make a composite (sandwich) of more than one material.
IshKebab
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"Glass" means non-crystalline, basically. It doesn't mean that it is like glass.
durkie
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better thermal and energy transfer properties too.
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