Glass transition: plastic deformation in a ball of putty under its own weight

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Silly putty exhibits a glass transition. A ball of putty is left at rest at room temperature. It slowly deforms plastically under its own weight. From TLP: The Glass Transition in Polymers, http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/doitpoms/tlplib/glass-transition/demos.php Courtesy of DoITPoMS, The University of Cambridge. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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  • This is the WEIRDEST thing..

    But COOL! :D

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