Scientists Accidentally Produce An Entirely New Type Of Glass

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The new type of glass with an organized molecular structure, a material previously thought to have a random structure. Wokandapix.

Glass is, by nature, random. It is created by melting several minerals together at unfathomably high temperatures. Glass has a haphazard, disorganized structure, like a liquid frozen in time. However, by some happy accident, some scientists have created glass with a regular molecular pattern.