REEL@SCIENCE

Dear Friends, Earlier, we had discussed about the Thugs of Alkali series, but these thugs would empower only when they are perturbed by some other intruder from the same family of atom. It may sound weird, but the fact is true when we look back into our history. Assuming that, nation like India which was rich in its cultural heritage as well as their methodology to impart knowledge was superior (in terms of administration) and advanced (in terms of problem solving skills by the disciple).   When intruders stepped into this Bharatha khanda, they started changing in steps and ensured that the ancient Gurukula system had vanished from normal public life which is a shortcoming for value-based education system. The modern education system (adapted from missionaries) have led the system to step down the role of Guru (preacher) to just an ordinary teacher. This is because we have accepted the cultural modification by the invaders. The fact is, entire world has accepted the invaders a...

Dear Friends, I was wandering a lot in the orbit to connect with you guys; unfortunately I was unable to restart due to some kind of hindrance within and today I have come back. The 75 articles so far had made me what I am today. As a blogger, I am not sure how many find it useful or thoughtful.   I personally get satisfied when I publish a post which connects life with science. I can see myself being transparent as possible because, I don’t think much while writing it, I just write what I feel and that is the reason why these articles are debatable. As I told you that, I love being transparent and at times these transparencies have some conspiracies just the way we discussed in our previous article “THE BORON OXIDE ANOMALY”. Today, I feel like writing the trouble maker (alkali atoms) role in Silicate glasses where there are pronounced changes in properties due to addition of secondary alkali oxide to glass which is termed as Mixed Alkali Effect. I look this effect in th...

Dear Friends, I have been wondering that how can we change our shades, colors, characteristics, nature, and sacrifice ourselves. There is certainly a breaking point, as discussed earlier; there are few glasses which do break up/show up their temperament to these modifiers. Interesting part is they have dual structure, which means they are polymorphous i.e., trigonal and tetrahedra (borates); octahedral and tetrahedral (Germanates) both of them have hit back attitude and that’s what makes them warriors in field of glass science. More applications can be extracted, if glasses are not slaves to modifiers. This concept is bit overhead when we quest what exactly this anomaly is. Structural Borate Units The Modifier cation Na+, enters into to the pure boroxal structure then forms lose trigonal borate structure and tries to build better coordination and makes it stronger tetrahedral, Boron too accepts and gets trained by bridging oxide network, this story continues and the ...

Dear Friends, As I ended up with lot of buzz last week, according to the definition, glass is a non-crystalline material which possesses glass transition temperature, and even according to standards, g lass  is an inorganic product of fusion that has cooled to a rigid condition without crystallization. This has some thermodynamic connect, well exactly we see people who call themselves transparent are not much transparent but as days pass ahead, we realize that there is something that’s restricting them from being transparent. This made me feel that just being amorphous, it can never be considered as glass, there is some solid theory and evidence which makes it glass as the product has to fuse and cool to a rigid condition much prior to crystallization rate. This is nothing but kinetic theory of glass formation, well as we see people like glass are highly mobile and locomotive nature, it made me buzz behind their dynamism. This theory cleared all my doubts on glass as well as...

Dear Friends, To define transparency with respect to life is so tough and to consolidate what we define in life, we need some theories and proofs. That is what today's article all about, an extension and incidence which makes us define what makes being like glass as tougher, clean and transparent. The rules framed by Zachariasen as discussed in article 50, along with it, there are couple of things which add up to understand the transparency Tough to understand 3-D network Glass 1)   Dietzel Field Strength: 2) Suns Single bond Strength Criterion: These two theories add flavors to structure of glass, the real men who are complex to understand can never be concluded with a single perception, we need to consider and revise them in all angles. That is where we get Dietzel Field Strength and Suns Single Bond Strength Criteria to essay it on structure. GLASS FAMILY Accordingly, Dietzel quotes it by considering the Coulombs potential/ field, as per earlie...

Dear friends,                                                           QUEST ON GLASS MAKES ME QUESTION I have seen people defining and defying on what they are because the role and the way of life what we lead varies with perception. Definition is contextual, when it comes to glass, it becomes much more contextual and complicated, it may appear as simple, plain, clear and transparent but the moment we define glass, we bring in various things in which inspired me to share what I read in a book  "Glass Nanocomposites: Synthesis, properties and applications by Basudeb Karmakar, Klaus Rademann and Andrey L Stepanov." and those definitions made me feel that there  is a similar connect on the way how we have imagine a system, a process, an individual, a team, a genre, a concert, and it is also applicable for a concept ...

Dear Friends, As it is Valentine's Day, I would like to share my views on how the life gets beautiful when you are in a relationship as transparent as glass, and the way you have to tune for stability.   Glass can be prepared in several methods viz., sputtering, inert gas condensation, and sol-gel and melt quench technique.                                  Homogeneous melt is poured to ensure that glass is formed, observe the red-hot liquid which undergoes super cooling, isn't that Orphic? That's how fights in a relationship end. Amongst them, the most conventional is melt quench technique where the synthesis of glass, in this case, is strictly dependent on two factors 1) The melting temperature of the batch and 2) The rate of crystallization. As per A.S.T.M. standards, the glass is defined as an inorganic product of fusion which has cooled to a rigid condition...

Dear Friends, This article is based on my understanding  on the modifiers and the way how our formed network changes. As these modifiers possess higher coordination number and lower valency as discussed in article 50, where we know the rules for glass formers in oxide glasses, I wish to correlate this concept with the methods for survival in this inferior society. The role of glass formers are really idealistic one. We can never be so pure/ in other words, the world doesn’t accept ideals, they need someone who can dance to their tunes. The one who makes you dance and the way how we look at the transparency dance to attain its stability is because of these modifiers. Glass as we know it is an amorphous solid with 3D network. This network has to be broken, that can be done by modification, that responsibility is taken care by network modifiers. I wish to list few interesting correlation on these modifiers on how they break our virtuousness.  The above periodic t...