On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:17:25 +0100, you wrote: >But it doesn't hit the point regarding meteorites. "Glassy" evokes the >impression of something shiny, very smooth, mirror-like. But as we all now
But the "laymen" use of the term isn't the scientific one. "Glassy" means something that cooled quickly enough that it didn't have time to crystalize and is instead, on the atomic level, an amorphous mess. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
