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Is glass a solid or a super slow liquid? Physicists create equilibrium glassy phase from rod-shaped particles

  • March 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Is glass a solid or a super slow liquid? Physicists create equilibrium glassy phase from rod-shaped particles
Glass appears to be a solid, but in theory it sometimes behaves more like an extremely slow liquid. Physicists in Utrecht now show that glass-like structures can also exist in equilibrium, which is something many theories say should be impossible.

Originally published at Phys.org

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