Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers...
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or Syria. The earliest known glass objects were beads, perhaps created accidentally during metalworking or the production of faience, which is a form of...
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Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations...
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technique in the 1950s at their production site in St Helens, Merseyside. Modern windows are usually made from float glass, though Corning Incorporated uses...
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metal-working (slags) or during the production of faience, a pre-glass vitreous material made by a process similar to glazing. Glass products remained a luxury...
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glass objects have been recovered across the Roman Empire in domestic, industrial and funerary contexts. Glass was used primarily for the production of...
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Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass. Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with...
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industrial process of glass manufacturing, transition phases of product changes (such as thickness and color changes) and production offcuts. External cullet...
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of glass fragments and ingots to be used in local beadmaking practices. Preliminary excavations also exhibit evidence of indigenous glass production from...
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Gorilla Glass, developed and manufactured by Corning, is a brand of chemically strengthened glass now in its ninth generation. Designed to be thin, light...
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