Metallic Glass Perfume Bottles (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Metallic Glass Perfume Bottles

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Metallic glasses discovered in the 1990s behave similary to silicate glasses (window glass), as these blown metallic-glass bottles illustrate. The trick is to add atoms of various sizes to the melt that get in the way of the atoms arranging themselves in crystalline lattices.

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Jan Schroers/Yale University

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