Using 20-million-year-old amber to test the super-Arrhenius behaviour of glass-forming systems

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Jing ^a   Simon, Sindee L ^a   McKenna, Gregory B ^a  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBER; BIOMATERIAL; GLASS;

AMBER; FOSSILIZATION; GLASS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTHALPY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FOSSIL; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GLASS FORMING SYSTEM; GLASS INDUSTRY; LIQUID; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHASE TRANSITION; RATING SCALE; RELAXATION TIME; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84877724392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2809     Document Type: Article

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