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

Darren Garrison cynapse at charter.net
Sun Jan 7 14:48:52 EST 2007


On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:34:12 -0500, you wrote:

>On 7 Jan 2007 at 14:26, Darren Garrison wrote:
>
>> "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.
>
>I think this is a stretch of the term 'glassy'.  Unless there is somewhere a reference to 
>this meaning that I am not aware of?

http://www.answers.com/glass&r=67

"Any of a large class of materials with highly variable mechanical and optical
properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization..."

http://www.answers.com/glassy

"Characteristic of or resembling glass."



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