• Calavera@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You are telling me that if we heat glass it would deform? Who would have thought about that right

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      1 year ago

      Heat in this context means any temperature above -273.15°C. Steel doesn’t display liquid properties at “room temperature”, glass does.

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          Deforming on time scales longer than a human life, so that’s why you wouldn’t see it. It might indeed be an urban legend, I don’t know, but given the claims in the article I cited I wouldn’t entirely discount the possibility.