2004 · Q34
34. Which one of the following is a super-cooled liquid?
General SciencePhysics
- AIce-cream
- BTeflon
- CGlass
- DMercury
Explanation
Glass is an amorphous solid — its atoms are frozen in a disordered arrangement like a liquid, with no crystal lattice — so physicists describe it as a supercooled liquid. Ice-cream is a frozen colloid, Teflon is a semi-crystalline polymer, and mercury is a genuine liquid metal at room temperature, not a supercooled one.