[meteorite-list] Irons DON'T form Fusion Crust's - yes they DO

Darren Garrison cynapse at charter.net
Sun Jan 7 14:26:44 EST 2007


On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:17:25 +0100, you wrote:

>But it doesn't hit the point regarding meteorites. "Glassy" evokes the 
>impression of something shiny, very smooth, mirror-like. But as we all now 

But the "laymen" use of the term isn't the scientific one.  "Glassy" means
something that cooled quickly enough that it didn't have time to crystalize and
is instead, on the atomic level, an amorphous mess.



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