glass

     

Glass in the common sense refers to a har, brittle, transparent solid, such as that used for windows, many bottles, or eyewear, including soda-lime glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, isinglass (Muscovy-glass), or aluminium oxynitride.

Trivia about glass

  • Sandwich,stained,Steuben
  • Guinness was bottled in stoneware until 1834, when a tax on this was repealed
  • Spy,hour,stained
  • A chimney on a hurricane lamp is usually made out of this
  • Venice, especially the island of Murano, is famous for its beads made out of this
  • A vitrine is a cabinet with doors made of this material
  • Silica fused at high temperatures will get you this see-through substance
  • Pessimistic Spaniards see the vaso, this, as half empty
  • With fire, melted sand is combined with soda & lime to make this transparent substance
  • It's believed that Charles Perrault altered the story's footwear when he mixed up vair, "fur", with "verre", this
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) A wood product called TimberSIL gives Make It Right homes durability; it endures, resists warping, & is a Class A fire retardant, due to being infused with this common transparent material
  • Flute,tumbler,shot
  • Extreme heat fuses soda, lime & sand to make this everyday substance
  • (Alex shows us a large stone in Yad Vashem, Israel.) This stone comes from the central synagogue in Aachen, Germany, which was destroyed on November 9, 1938 in what became know as Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken this
  • Manhattan's Lever House helped usher in the era of the building style known as a box of this material
  • The earliest man-made examples of this silica & borate material were beads made in the 1500s B.C.
  • Salinger family, or Williams menagerie (5)
  • In the 1930s, using fused silica & silicones, J. Franklin Hyde found the first new way to make this in 3,000 years
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Cape Cod, Massachusetts) When lightning strikes the sand, it can melt & fuse it into a type of this, called fulgurite
  • Vitrification is the process of turning radioactive waste into a type of this transparent solid substance