spin glass

As if it were spun glass, she set the rifle in the wagon.

This term is a basic measure in spin glass theory.

Sylvia took the bag as if it were made of spun glass.

Try to remember I'm not made of spun glass.

For once I let myself forget the vehicle metaphor, and instead spun glass.

Wren had treated him like he was made out of spun glass for a month after that.

She smiled at him, looking fragile as spun glass.

Aral merely grinned, and made love to her as if she were spun glass.

Then he looked left and screamed out two lungfuls of silent spun glass.

The recent works of Talagrand concern spin glasses mean fields models.

Beyond the water rose a golden-hued city, its bridges and towers like spun glass.

It was of a sort of grey-whiteness, something like spun glass.

It is the time dependence which distinguishes spin glasses from other magnetic systems.

The child's thin, short blond hair was as pale as spun glass.

He had me then in his arms, holding me as if I were made of spun glass and any second I'd break.

It was like spun glass, fine and fragile.

The spinning glass shapes began singing to her.

The sound made Bill think of spun glass and open wells and empty rooms at midnight.

This is called a spin glass, and is an example of geometrical frustration.

Similarly, in a spin glass magnetic disorder is frozen.

It might be made of spun glass.

Buildings like spun glass, but stronger than steel.

For no place could exist like the one she witnessed through a blurry haze-a world of spinning glass.

He cupped her face and held it as he might have held spun glass.

Other magnetic orderings, such as spin glass ordering, also exhibit this phenomena.