Can thermodynamics relate the properties of melts and glasses to their structure?

In this paper, it is shown that the thermodynamic concept, which considers the structure of glasses and melts in terms of a non-statistical distribution of their basic structural units, enables a large variety of the properties of glasses (melts) to be predicted with a high degree of reliability. The paper continues a series of works on the thermodynamic modelling of properties and presents the results obtained for the diffusion coefficient, the solubility of gases and redox equilibria in glasses and melts. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.