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A Plane With Wings Of Glass? Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Science   
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Imagine a plane that has wings made out of glass. Thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility. Despite its solid appearance, glass is actually a 'jammed' state of matter that moves very slowly. Like cars in a traffic jam, atoms in a glass can't reach their destination because the route is blocked by their neighbors, so it never quite becomes a 'proper' solid. (source: bristol.ac.uk)
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