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Glass is neither a liquid nor an ordinary solid

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Your windows are actively having an existential identity crisis. Glass lacks the ordered crystalline structure of a true solid, but its molecules don't move freely enough to be classified as a liquid. It exists in an agonizing molecular purgatory called an amorphous solid state, freezing into extreme rigidity without ever properly settling into a formal geometric pattern.

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