Download the audio version at https://bit.ly/3pw8zUC. Join Gus Sorola, Gavin Free, Barbara Dunkelman, and Drew Saplin as they discuss peeling back the layers of the onion, glass being a liquid (or not), what the middle of the donut is, and more on this week's RT Podcast.
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The 'flowing' pattern in old glass is from imprecision in the production process. You can actually still purchase glass that is made to look like that.
@Mr_Scorpio Yup! The smart thing to do with glass made that way is to put the thickest side downward, to lower the amount of weight the pane has to support up high, hence why in old buildings the thickest part is at the bottom. Nothing to do with flowing. In fact sometimes they wouldn't do that, and there are examples of glass with the thick side sideways or up, which is obviously not from it flowing anywhere.
Drew is looking for the term of a transformable solid. Glass is a Solid, but it cannot hold its own weight and "flows" down with gravity until its to weak and shatters.