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Is glass a form of plastic?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) material composed mostly of silicon dioxide. Plastic is a broad term for thousands of different polymers, which are manmade hydrocarbons. Some are crystalline, and some are not.

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