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Where was glass made?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

It was made my heating several minerals at high temperatures.

EDIT: History has it some Arabs were cooking on sand, and noticed lumps of meted material in the ash after the fire cooled. The sodium carbonate in the ash (similar to laundry detergent) allowed the silica (silicon dioxide)in the sand to melt at a lower temperature. Nowadays, the chemicals used are generally calcium carbonate (lime; like chalk) and lead salts to make it sparkle. The lime and soda are called :"flux" to allow the silica to, again, melt at a lower temperature.

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14y ago

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