Physicists Clemens Bechinger and Li Tian from the University of Konstanz in Germany discovered the presence of an interesting phenomenon in glass, which was conventionally called the “liquid skin” effect. Referred to in Nauya as “surface sheet”. This is best illustrated by hard ice cubes that stick together and freeze to each other.
This effect is observed in different substances: salt crystals, diamonds, quartz. But in glass he found a discovery, although it is worth making a clarification that the German research worked with colloidal glass. In this material, tiny shells of glass are suspended in a liquid that occurs in atoms in ordinary glass. One size is displaced by 10,000 times more atoms, so it is convenient to observe them in a microscope and take pictures of the disintegration.
Experiments with colloidal glass measure that the mobility of particles inside the radioactive layer is several times higher than that of particles inside capillary glass. It was predictable, not surprising to scientists, that the thickness of the “active” dimension is measured in tens of cha diameters. It is believed that the glass is distributed in different environments, the “core” and approaches the bogginess, the physical state.
This discovery gives an understanding of how thick and dense foams are. Despite the fact that glass is not a stable crystal, the presence of an unusual outer layer, the very “liquid skin”, opens up new facets in the collection of this material. And I don’t mean it – it’s getting dark soon work.
Source: Tech Cult
