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Former-Modifier Anomaly: A War For Structural Liberation

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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 ...

Glassy Men: Beyond Emotions

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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...