2nd October 2019

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How glass is made in nature?

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In nature, glasses are formed when sand and/or rocks, often high in silica, are heated to high temperatures and then cooled rapidly. The Glass in Nature display shows specimens of glass made in nature. Obsidian or volcanic glass, for example, is molten rock that has quickly cooled, becoming rock in a glassy state.

What is used to make glass?

The main raw material used to make glass is sand. To make clear glass, a special sand called silica sand is used. This fine white sand is needed because it is very pure and does not contain other unwanted chemicals. Glass production also needs limestone, soda ash and other chemicals to colour the glass.

How glass was invented?

The ancient Roman historian Pliny suggested that Phoenician merchants had made the first glass in the region of Syria around 5000BC. Glass melting furnaces were small and the heat they produced was hardly enough to melt glass. But in the 1st century BC, Syrian craftsmen invented the blow pipe.

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How glass is made step by step?

Believe it or not, glass is made from liquid sand. You can make glass by heating ordinary sand (which is mostly made of silicon dioxide) until it melts and turns into a liquid. You won't find that happening on your local beach: sand melts at the incredibly high temperature of 1700°C (3090°F).

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Is Cotton man made?

“Natural” fibers and fabrics come from plants or animals. For example, cotton is a plant, and silk comes from the cocoons of silkworms. Some fabrics are called “man-made” or “synthetic” because man produces them from chemicals. For example, polyester is made from a petroleum product.

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When the glass was invented?

Glass has a long history of 5000 years. 1500 BC Small glass articles made from moulds have been found in Egypt and Syria. The first glass was produced probably in Egypt. 1 AD Technique of blowing glass was invented in the Babylon area.

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Can you bend a glass?

Bending a glass pane or bottle to a precise shape is not feasible without professional equipment. However, glass rods and tubing is easy to bend, and frequently done by artists and people working in laboratories. All you need is a flame source, safety glasses, and patience.

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Where glass is found?

Several inorganic glasses are found in nature. These include obsidians (volcanic glasses), fulgarites (formed by lightning strikes), tektites found on land in Australasia and associated microtektites from the bottom of the Indian Ocean, moldavites from central Europe, and Libyan Desert glass from western…

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Is a glass a liquid?

Glass, however, is actually neither a liquid—supercooled or otherwise—nor a solid. It is an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter. And yet glass's liquidlike properties are not enough to explain the thicker-bottomed windows, because glass atoms move too slowly for changes to be visible.

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Is Obsidian called natural glass?

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock. Obsidian is produced when felsic lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.

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What is a mirror made out of?

A silver glass mirror is an ordinary mirror, coated on its back surface with silver, which produces images by reflection. This kind of glass mirror is produced by coating a silver, copper film and two or more layers of waterproof paint on the back surface of float glass, which perfectly resists acid and moisture.

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Is plastic a man made material?

People can use wood to create new things, but they cannot create wood. Nature has to do that. Plastic is an example of a man made material. Plastic is made when people combine carbon with oxygen or sulfer (natural materials) and then put those materials through chemical processes and heat.

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Is glass natural or synthetic material?

It is more natural than synthetic, because its shape has been changed, but the material is still wood. Glass is a little harder to classify, but could be considered a natural material. For example, the synthetic material plastic is made from petroleum, which is pumped out of the earth. Petroleum is a natural resource.

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Is gold man made or natural?

One of them is created by mother nature and the other one has been processed by man. Man-made gold nuggets are usually made from lower grade alloys. Less than 1% of gold found today is left in its natural form-mostly because that gold is found in very small sizes, or chemically leached from host rock.

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Who discovered glass?

Little is known about the first attempts to make glass. However, it is generally believed that glassmaking was discovered 4,000 years ago, or more, in Mesopotamia. The Roman historian Pliny attributed the origin of glassmaking to Phoenician sailors.

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What makes glass see through?

Photons pass through glass because they are not absorbed. And they are not absorbed because there is nothing which "absorbs" light in visual frequencies in glass. You may have heard that ultraviolet photons are absorbed by glass, so glass is not transparent for them. Atoms absorb well-defined discrete frequencies.

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What kind of material is glass?

The most glass you encounter is silicate glass, which consists mainly of silica or silicon dioxide, SiO₂. This is the type of glass you find in windows and drinking glasses. The crystalline form of this mineral is quartz. When the solid material is non-crystalline, it is a glass.

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What is the chemical makeup of glass?

Formers make up the largest percentage of the mixture to be melted. In typical soda-lime-silica glass the former is silica (Silicon dioxide) in the form of sand. Fluxes lower the temperature at which the formers will melt. Soda (Sodium carbonate) and Potash (Potassium carbonate), both alkalis, are common fluxes.

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How do they make stained glass?

The coloured glass is crafted into stained glass windows in which small pieces of glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures, held together (traditionally) by strips of lead and supported by a rigid frame. Painted details and yellow stain are often used to enhance the design.

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Is paper a man made or natural?

Sand (natural) being heated and made into glass (man made). Wood (natural) being made into paper (man-made). Oil (natural) being made into nylon (man-made). There are a great many man-made substances that we use everyday.

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Is rubber man made or natural?

Although there are something like 200 plants in the world that produce latex, over 99 percent of the world's natural rubber is made from the latex that comes from a tree species called Hevea brasiliensis, widely known as the rubber tree.

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Can glass be recycled?

Glass is taken from the bin and taken to a glass treatment plant. The glass is sorted by colour and washed to remove any impurities. The glass is then crushed and melted, then moulded into new products such as bottles and jars. Glass does not degrade through the recycling process, so it can be recycled again and again.

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Are glass biodegradable?

Nonbiodegradable materials do not decompose over a short period of time. Materials such as plastics, glass bottles and metals will often remain completely intact in the environment for many years. In fact, items like glass bottles may never biodegrade.

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