Atomic rings affect glass fragility (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Atomic rings affect glass fragility

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Corning scientists discovered that as the number of smaller, less-stable atomic rings in a glass increases, the instability, or liquid fragility, of the glass also increases.

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Titanas from Athens, Greece

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