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From: jmc@riccb.UUCP (Jeff McQuinn )
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Subject: Re: Re: H-less liquids
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Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 06:43:28 EDT
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> Actually glass is a fluid (though not a liquid).  The issue (in the case
> of glass) is wether or not it is crystalline.  It is not.   Being in a
> "rigid condition" does not preclude being a fluid.  
> 
> --jeff

I read somewhere a long time ago that measurements taken on very old cathedral
windows proves that the glass in them actually flows.  The windows are many
centuries old and are now several inches thicker on the bottom then on the
top.  I've often wished I could visit a medevial church just to see this
phenomenon.
				Jeff McQuinn just VAXing around