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Do old wavy windows actually melt over centuries, or is there another explanation for their distorted glass?

Mechanism: misconception, common observation, explanation

Payoff: Refutes a popular myth: old windows are wavy because of how glass was made, not because glass flows.

Factual: passedApproval: approved1 evidence linksOpen in Script Lab

Performance

3.07× medianBaseline: 20

Evidence

1youtube

Duplicates

0Exact component-level matches

Limitations

0No missing signal is coerced to zero
Evidence1
youtube · youtube.video
Fu4OmGknmSUOpen source
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Duplicate signals0

No exact component matches.

Limitations0

No explicit limitations recorded.

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