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From: mat@mtx5b.UUCP (Mark Terribile)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: A question about physics and NOT metaphysics
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 23:23:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  4 23:23:45 1985
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I hope that a question about real things in the real world isn't out of
place here.

	Consider the specific heat of various materials.  The specific
heat of metals is very low ... approximately one fifth to one tenth that of
water.  Ceramics and glassy materials have specific heats that are
approximately the specific heat of water, give or take a factor of one part
in three.

	Now it is possible to take certain metals in the molten phase and
cool them very rapidly, as by spraying them against a rotating wheel cooled
by liquid nitrogen.  The result is an amorphous, non-crystaline solid made
from the metal in question: a metallic glass.

	Is the specific heat of such a material more reminiscent of the
specific heat of the metallic phase of the material, or is it reminiscent
of the specific heat of glass?
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