Glass... solid? or liquid?

This just proves that sometimes hubbies are right, especially when someone is messing with a young girl's mind. If those who answered thus far were to play a game of 20 questions, the fur would fly! Of course, bobmnu's answer (number 3) is the best of all possible answers. That misinformed teachers would promote an urban legend as "science" is scary enough, but that you should encounter this in a textbook boggles the mind. Momma, do you have an update on this story?

I was basing my first reponce on my old high school classes and have sicne done a search and found that there is some questionable facts assumed by the text books. According to these two sites glass is a solid and they back up the article with facts. Check it out and maybe you could challenge your daughter's textbook and inform her teacher. http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C01/C01Links/www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass

Glass is a liquid. If you look at an old glass window you will notice the ripple effect. This is the glass slowly flowing down.

well I would just tell you what I have lerned so far. Glass is liquid based on the molecular activity and components. There is musium whwre there is a guge experiment where they have this big pece of glass set up for years and its put in such position that every once in a while the glass will drip a drop. Also not only is the bottom of old glass thicker than the top but if its coloured glass (like a mozaic) you can see it better how the glass runs down.

Its an amorphous solid, thanks to how it is made and what the final compound is. Its usually solid in real life application and speech. Its not specifically a liquid since it has solid form/application and it doesn't fit the definition of a supercooled liquid either.

Hahah... talk about matter, generally its solid! how about water, talk about water, you will find water as something liquid.... Physically, Liquid is the substance which you can pour and form the same shape as its container. Glass do not make the same shape with its container. Therefore, glass is not liquid. heheh...logic. Matter will be solid or liquid depends on its how rigid its molecular arrangements, to built its structure. glass in room temperature is solid because its molecules are really solid attach to one another, makes it rigid and has strong physical structure. But in very high temperature, glass will change its physical state, melting to be liquid. At that state, then we can say that there is liquid glass. Water also, actually it has 3 states, ice, liquid, and gas, but actually they are the same "water", and the molecules are H20...

yep, hard to believe but it is true. Glass is a liquid - I used to love my old distorted windows in my victorian home... 6 foot tall, mahogany trimmed - thicker at the bottom, swirls of iridescent here and there old glass. just like mercury is a liquid what I want to know is, is ice a liquid?

What? really? how can glass be liquid when it's hard as rock? I can't believe that.... Hm... maybe i should do some research too. Lol!