Is Glass Really A Solid?

Of course glass is a solid… right? Could it possibly be a liquid?

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Physicists shatter stubborn mystery of how glass forms
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_release...
“A physicist at the University of Waterloo is among a team of scientists who have described how glasses form at the molecular level and provided a possible solution to a problem that has stumped scientists for decades.”

Fact or Fiction?: Glass Is a (Supercooled) Liquid
http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...
“Glass, however, is actually neither a liquid—supercooled or otherwise—nor a solid. It is an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter. “

What makes glass transparent?
http://science.howstuffworks.com/ques...
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