Wasn't me, must have been Michael Smith! Michael from Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: Jose Luiz Moreira Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 7:21 PM Subject: RESEND: Little Panes of Glass / 501
> Michael wrote : > " > I didn't recieve an answer to this until the past Sunday morning > while watching a report on Afgahnistan. In the report, workmen where > collecting large quartz stones in a dried river bed for use in > glassmaking. While showing some pictures of beautiful bottles a > brilliant flash occurred and I saw delicate drops of water forming on > the inside of these beautiful glass vessels as the sunlight angled > through them. Could it be that diffuse hydrogen from sunlight was > knocking loose free oxygen radicals from the walls of glass(SiO2)? > ---------------------------- > > Isn�t that normally what all mortals will call simply "water condensation" > formed when you have a closed environment and water vapour cannot simply > go out and will condense in the generally cooler walls of the container ? > > > Jose > >
