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The Glass Transition

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Amorphous Solids and the Liquid State

Part of the book series: Physics of Solids and Liquids ((PSLI))

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In this subsection we present various definitions of glass.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, Scotland, UK

    A. E. Owen

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  1. Theoretical Chemistry Department, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, OX1 3TG, Oxford, England

    Norman H. March

  2. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California, USA

    Robert A. Street

  3. Istituto di Fisica Teorica dell’Università and International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

    Mario P. Tosi

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Owen, A.E. (1985). The Glass Transition. In: March, N.H., Street, R.A., Tosi, M.P. (eds) Amorphous Solids and the Liquid State. Physics of Solids and Liquids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9156-3_12

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