Organic Chemistry

why glass is called super cooled liquid?

KRANTHI

10 Years agoGrade

7 Answers

RAKESH CHINDAM

Approved Tutor Answer10 Years ago

Glass is an amorphous solid. Like liquids, amorphous
solids have a tendency to flow, though very slowly.
Therefore, sometimes these are called pseudo solids or super
cooled liquids.

Gavvala Ganesh

10 Years ago

Antique windowpanes are thicker at the bottom, because glass has flowed to the bottom over time. Glass has no crystalline structure, hence it is NOT a solid. Glass is a supercooled liquid. Glass is a liquid that flows very slowly.

L GOUSE BASHA

10 Years ago

Glass is an amorphous solid. Like liquids, amorphous
solids have a tendency to flow, though very slowly.
Therefore, sometimes these are called pseudo solids or super
cooled liquids.glaces are atype flowing solid like structure

SHAIK HAFEEZUL KAREEM

10 Years ago

Glass is an amorphous solid. Like liquids, amorphous
solids have a tendency to flow, though very slowly.
Therefore, sometimes these are called pseudo solids or super
cooled liquids.

ULFAT

10 Years ago

Glass is sometimes called a supercooled liquid because it does not form a crystalline structure, but instead forms an amorphous solid that allows molecules in the material to continue to move. However, Scientific American indicates that amorphous solids are neither supercooled liquids nor solids.

G.VENKATESH

9 Years ago

Glass is also called as supercooled liquid.Because it do not form a crystalline structure, but instead forms an amorphous solid that allows molecules in the material to continue to move.

Pranay Priyadarshi

8 Years ago

Hence glass is considered a super cooled liquid and that becomes the reason why the glass windows become slightly thicker at the bottom that at the top over a period of time.Explanation: All amorphous solids have tendency to flow as rubber, plastic.