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6 Responses to “ Do They Actually Have Classes at Xavier’s? ”

1. SnakeLinkSonic
   June 18th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
   

   Maybe she skipped some classes? I never got into X-men myself. It was always Spiderman and I was too stubborn to acknowledge anything else. Speaking of which, do you have any worthwhile Spiderman posts? I also recall myself lurking around here to see if you had anything to say on Eckhart’s portryal of Dent in the The Dark Knight last year.

   Lastly, your House reviews have given me some inspiration to go through the entire series in blog posts for myself. I’m gonna finish re-watching seasons four and five over the weekend. I’ll start posting Monday. I’m gonna have to work out some system if I want to be done by Season 6 (September 21st). Then again, maybe I won’t rush it.

   Anyway, it’s called “House Call”
   http://housecallsls.blogspot.com/

   ~sLs~

2. Jeff R.
   June 18th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
   

   Foul! Foul, I say.

   A piece of glass is, essentially, one big molecule. (Or sort of something between a single molecule and a crystal, anyhow.) So anything that breaks it into smaller pieces is necessarily going to be breaking molecular bonds.

3. Dr Archeville
   June 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am
   

   I’d always heard that time makes glass (glass in windows, at least) eventually get thicker at the bottom and thinner at the top, since glass is more like an extremely viscous liquid than a true solid. Not turn back into sand.

   I don’t think grinding turns glass back into sand, either, but into… powdered glass.

   And even if it did, wouldn’t her heat be fusing the sand right back into glass?

4. rgl
   June 19th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
   

   Jeff R. :

   No, it is more like a block of ice held together by bonds which are not as strong as intra-molecular bonds.

   Dr. Archeville :

   Glass theoritically flows but so slowly it is not likely be seen on the mere ages of civilizations . And right, until you get very close to individual molecules, you have powdered glass.

5. Jeff R.
   June 23rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
   

   rgl: Again, no. Obviously no, in fact, since there’s no hydrogen in glass to form hydrogen bonds and your other choices for weak bonds aren’t strong enough to hold anything together as a solid at standard temperature and pressure. The only bonds in glass are the SI-O ones, which are mostly covalent, if organized in a non-structured manner, and so breaking a piece of it will involve breaking molecular bonds.

   (If you insist on continuing to dispute, what exactly is the structure for your candidate for a single molecule of SiO2 in glass?)

6. JDHuey
   June 23rd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
   

   http://www.glasslinks.com/newsinfo/physics.htm

   An interesting article that covers some of the physics of glass and addresses the ”myth’ of glass as a fluid.

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