{"id":192,"date":"2008-09-25T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T21:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2011-04-05T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T23:20:24","slug":"no-ordinary-glass-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"No ordinary glass of water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grade schools teach that there are three or four states of matter\u2014solid, liquid, gas and possibly plasma. Nature is much fuzzier than that, however. Depending who you ask, there may be more than a dozen states of matter, along with numerous substates such as glass.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 131px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/researchstories.asu.edu\/stories\/glassy-riddle-solving-mystery-water-glass-775\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Portrait of C. Austen Angell\" src=\"http:\/\/chemistry.asu.edu\/content\/faculty\/FacImages\/caangell.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of C. Austen Angell\" width=\"131\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">C. Austen Angell. Image courtesy Arizona State University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes, glass. Scientifically speaking, glass is a highly viscous, noncrystalline substate of matter. It is like a liquid that cools without becoming crystalline. Our everyday silica glass is but one example; many substances, including metals, become glassy under the right conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Physical chemists have struggled for decades to crack the true nature of glass and understand what happens at the transition to and from the glassy state. In 1995, Nobel laureate Philip Anderson called it the \u201cdeepest and most interesting unsolved problem in solid state theory.\u201d Now, C. Austen Angell, a chemistry professor at Arizona State University believes he has translated the Rosetta Stone of glassy substances: water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/researchstories.asu.edu\/stories\/glassy-riddle-solving-mystery-water-glass-775\" target=\"_blank\">A glassy riddle: solving the mystery of water glass<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Related articles:<\/em><br \/>\n\u2022  <a href=\"http:\/\/researchstories.asu.edu\/stories\/science-setback-771\" target=\"_blank\">The science of setback<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022  <a href=\"http:\/\/asunews.asu.edu\/20080212_glassywater\" target=\"_blank\">Angell helps solve mystery of &#8216;glassy&#8217; water<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade schools teach that there are three or four states of matter\u2014solid, liquid, gas and possibly plasma. Nature is much fuzzier than that, however. Depending who you ask, there may be more than a dozen states of matter, along with numerous substates such as glass. Yes, glass. Scientifically speaking, glass is a highly viscous, noncrystalline &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=192\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No ordinary glass of water<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,73,74,3,13],"tags":[75,51],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-glass","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}