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Many features of glass behaviour can be explained by a new approach to glass structure based on two ideas. First, glass-forming melts generate ‘clusters’ of structurally non-related polymorphs which associate on cooling but cannot nucleate, and second, inter-cluster thermal strain can be relieved by subsequent ‘plating-out’ of modifier impurities.
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Goodman, C. Strained mixed-cluster model for glass structure. Nature 257, 370–372 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257370a0
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