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  2. From: land.d@applelink.apple.com (David Land)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.materials
  4. Subject: Re: Nature of Glass
  5. Message-ID: <land.d-091192174056@17.127.11.17>
  6. Date: 10 Nov 92 01:48:49 GMT
  7. References: <1992Oct29.183244.11883@msc.cornell.edu> <jeff.720401812@mama> <BwyCCL.H8L@news.iastate.edu> <1992Nov1.190310.14012@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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  14. Glass-flow-fans,
  15.  
  16.      As children and amateur archaeologists, my brothers and I used to dig
  17. up old bottles from a late-19th-century dump not far from our house in
  18. Pittsburgh. Many of the bottles were warped and smashed as though they'd
  19. been melted. None of the surrounding materials we dug up were charred, nor
  20. were there any other indications of the kind of heat needed to melt glass
  21. in the other stuff we dug up.
  22.  
  23.      My father (who is not a materials engineer or scientist, but just a
  24. guy) "explained" it with the "glass is a liquid" "fact," combined with the
  25. weight of the earth piled on top of them for around 100 years.
  26.  
  27.      Any comments?
  28.  
  29. Dave Land
  30.