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Examining a superhydrophobic glass surface that resists fog and glare and is self-cleaning.
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Learn if cold glass can flow.
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Portrait of a scientific glassblower.
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Learn about refraction and how the speed of light changes in glass.
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Learn how glass bottles are recycled.
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Images
Glass goblet with diamond-point stipple engraving, signed “F. Greenwood fecit 1764,”...
Courtesy of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Louvre Museum, Paris, with steel-and-glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei.
© Mary Ann Hemphill/Photo Researchers
The Prince Rupert's Drop is a droplet of glass formed by the rapid cooling of molten...
© Tyler A. Gordon
Wine goblet, blue glass decorated with white and gold enamel, Iran, mid-19th century;...
Photograph by Trish Mayo. Brooklyn Museum, New York, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Wilkinson in honor of Irma L. Fraad, 76.147.3
Bowl of pressed mosaic glass, believed to be from Alexandria, Egypt, 1st century...
Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum
Portland Vase, Roman cameo glass, 1st century ce;...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum
An artisan blowing glass on Murano island, near Venice.
© Bojan Brecelj—The Image Bank Unreleased/Getty Images
Glass mug by George Ravenscroft, c. 1674–80; in the Victoria and Albert...
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Vase of Favrile glass made by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1896; in the Victoria and Albert...
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Vase, Sous l'Eau du songe (“Under the Water of the Dream”), cased, acid-etched,...
Photograph by Joel Parham. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Varya and Hans Cohn, M.82.124.55
Onion-shaped blown glass by artist Dale Chihuly, at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic...
Lynne Sladky/AP Images
Fish of core-made glass with “combed” decoration, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 18th dynasty...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum
Toastmaster's glass, English, c. 1730; in the Victoria and Albert Museum,...
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph, A.C. Cooper Ltd.
Enamel, glass, and topaz hair ornament and brooch by René Lalique, 1900; in the Victoria...
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Venetian glass ewer in the form of a nef (“ship”), attributed to Ermonia Vivarini,...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum
Figure 4: Photomicrographs of phase separation in glass, showing (A) separation by...
Reprinted from W. Vogel, Chemistry of Glass, Figure 6.15, page 83, copyright © 1985 The American Ceramics Society, used by permission
Figure 5: The viscosity of representative silica glasses at varying temperatures.
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Figure 7: The refraction and reflection of light. (Left) When light strikes the boundary...
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Figure 10: Schematic diagram of the float process for making flat glass. A glass...
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Figure 8: Schematic diagram of a glass-melting furnace, showing (A) a cross section...
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Figure 12: The preparation of graded-index optical fibre, using the modified chemical...
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Figure 11: The forming of stepped-index optical fibre, using the double-crucible...
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