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Glass is a
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- superheated solid
- supercooled liquid
- supercooled gas
- superheated liquid
- superheated solid
Correct Option: B
Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent. The standard definition of a glass (or vitreous solid) is a solid formed by rapid melt quenching. However, the term glass is often used to describe any amorphous solid that exhibits a glass transition temperature Tg. If the cooling is sufficiently rapid (relative to the characteristic crystallization time) then crystallization is prevented and instead the disordered atomic configuration of the super-cooled liquid is frozen into the solid state at Tg. Generally, the structure of a glass exists in a meta-stable state with respect to its crystalline form.