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What are glass bottles made of?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Glass , of course.

Most glass is based on silica (sand), and has lime (calcium carbonate, like chalk) and soda (sodium carbonate, like for laundry detergent.) These two make the silica melt at a lower temperature., Most glass you see has some lead salts in it , also, to make it sparkle--hence"lead crystal". "Pyrex" brand has borax in it (sodium borate) for high temperatures. Of course, colored glass has other things in it--Uranium salts make a bright lime-green; etc.

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14y ago

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