Friday, 5 July 2013
The Glass on Your Phone Is Actually Shrinking Before Your Very Eyes
That Gorilla Glass screen might be good at protecting your
phone from scratches, smashes and the nightmare of repair bills, but did you
know it’s actually physically shrinking, even now while slapped across the
front of your phone.
No, neither did scientists, until now. Researchers have
observed glass actually behaving like a liquid for the first time. You see,
glass maybe a rigid, solid substance at room temperature, but its optical
properties are given to it by the random nature of the assortment of silicon
atoms within its matrix — an amorphous solid as it’s known. Essentially, on the
atomic scale, it looks like liquid despite being a solid.
Now scientists have discovered that the potassium and sodium
ions added into the Gorilla Glass mix to boost its durability, actually move
after the glass is set.
Immediately after the glass is spat out off the production
line, the ions embedded in the glass exist in energetically unfavourable
positions within the random array of silicon atoms. As energy levels always
tend towards their lowest supported configuration it results in their slow
shift into less energetic, more stable positions within your screen. This
reduction in energy manifests itself in a real physical shrinkage of the glass.
Scientists observed a 1-metre square of the stuff actually shrinking by 5 micrometres
in all directions within the first 10 days, and then continuing to shrink
another 5 micrometres during the next 18 months.
So you see, the glass on your phone is actually shrinking
before your very eyes right now, just at an imperceptible rate, to the human
eye at least. Thankfully, given the tiny amount the glass actually shrinks,
it’s not an issue for today’s phones. But as everything gets smaller, and
tolerances get lower with higher build quality, some day a micrometre shrinkage
could make a real difference. Maybe then we’ll have to wait for the glass to
cure before we can slap it on a phone.
Related movie you might like to see :
CSS SYNTAX HIGHLIGHT CHANGE IN NOT...
RELATED POST WIDGET LIST WITHOUT TH...
FLASH PLAYER SWF FILE DOWNLOAD ARCH...
WHACK A RAT CSS GAME
BODY JS FILE LINK IN MAGENTO
INTENSO MAGENTO QUICK VIEW BUTTON
Magento Hello World Module (Extensi...
HTML SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTER
HTML CSS GREEN COMMENTS NOTEPAD++
EDIT IMAGE IN NOTEPAD++
NOTEPAD++ REMOVE UNWANTED LINES
NOTE PAD ++ SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTER FOR ...
Related Post for The Glass on Your Phone Is Actually Shrinking Before Your Very Eyes
Recommended Post Slide out for Blogger
FLASH 8 DOWNLOAD
BODY JS FILE LINK IN MAGENTO
INTENSO MAGENTO QUICK VIEW BUTTON
PAGE NAVIGATION WITH TITLE AND THUMBNAIL IN BLOG
HTML CSS GREEN COMMENTS NOTEPAD++.jpg)
INSTALL WORD PRESS TEMPLATE
WHACK A RAT CSS GAME
HTML SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTER
BLOGGER MEGA GRID AND LIST TEMPLATE
FLASH PLAYER SWF FILE DOWNLOAD ARCHIVES
RELATED POST WIDGET LIST WITHOUT THUMBNAIL
RECOMMENDED POST SLIDE OUT FOR BLOGGER TEMPLATE
EDIT IMAGE IN NOTEPAD++
WORD PRESS PARTS
CODE OR TEXT WRITING BOX
BLOG FILE HOSTING GOOGLE PROJECT WITH TORTOISE SVN SOFTWARE
LABEL WIDGET RAINBOW/MULTI COLOUR STYLE
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment
Click to see the code!
To insert emoticon you must added at least one space before the code.