Scientists melt glass not by heating it but cooling it!

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London, Feb 3 (ANI): Scientists at Tel Aviv University have found a unique way of melting glass - they don't heat it but cool it to Absolute Zero temperature.

"The interesting story here is that by quantum effect, we can melt glass by cooling it. Normally, we melt glasses with heat," said Prof. Eran Rabani.

Rabani explains that it all depends on how molecules in materials are ordered. At some point in the cooling phase, a material can become glass and then liquid if the right conditions exist.

Theoretically, many different materials on earth, like the silica used in windows, can become a glass if they are cooled fast enough.



The study is to be published in Nature Physics. (ANI)

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