Yes, afaik the reason why sometimes treated glass as fluid as it is that
normally glass is not crystallised but completely amorph. We usually say a
solid material is always built up by crystals, hence the category of fluid.

Tamas


On 11/17/06, David VanHorn <dvanhorn@microbrix.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/17/06, Ken Walker <ken.walker@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > It is, a little known fact.
> >
> > That's why you find very old glass in windows is thicker at the bottom
> > than
> > the top, particularly stained glass in churches
>
>
> I saw that myth busted.
> Apparently in the early days it wasn't easy to fabricate glass in a
> uniform
> thickness.
> They installed it thick edge down.
>
>
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