The Solid State

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What makes a glass different from a solid such as quartz? Under what conditions could quartz be converted into glass? 

It is the arrangement of constituent particles of glass which makes it different from quartz. The constituent particles of glass have short range order while quartz has constituent particles in long range order and short range order both.

By heating and cooling rapidly quartz can be converted into glass.

Property

Quartz

Glass

1. Structure

2. Melting point

Quartz is crystalline and it has long range order.

Quartz has a sharp melting point. It changes into viscous liquid at 1983 K.

Amorphous silica does not have a regular structure of long range order.

Glass does not have a sharp melting point. On heating it softens and melts over a wide range of temperature.

 

If SiO2 is melted and the melt is cooled very, rapidly it forms a glass.
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