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{ Glass in Your Daily Life Ms. Lopez Project: An Application of Energy Conservation
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When Was Glass Invented?
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Likely made for the first time in Egypt, 3500 BC For the next 500 hundred years, Egypt and Syria were the main glass manufacturers In 1 st century BC, Syrian craft men invented the blow pipe –a tool that made glass production easier, faster and cheaper Some of the first glass objects included: jewelry, cosmetics & jars Glass production spread to Italy and then all of Europe, where stained glass in churches became very popular The Evolution of Glass
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By 1674, an English glassmaker changed the common ingredients of glass and called it lead glass Glass making didn’t prosper in the US until 1739 in New Jersey In the early 1800s, the most common type of glass was window glass (called crown glass) Bottles were used mainly for whiskey and then in the medical industry, thus making the glass demand increase At the beginning of the 1900s, the science and engineering of glass became better understood and new methods were developed In the 1970s, optical fibers where developed for use in laser communication systems –the internet became a possibility The Evolution of Glass
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Soda-lime glass Most common type of glass (approximately 90% of the glass produced in the world) Components: silica but also contains sodium carbonate and oxides of aluminum, magnesium and calcium (approximately 25-30% of the glass by weight) Lead glass Another common type of glass Made by replacing some or all of the oxides used in soda-lime with lead oxide. This makes glass denser Other raw materials for glass include metal oxides such as barium, cerium, and iron. Cerium oxide gives glass ultraviolet (UV) absorption properties. Boron oxide makes very hard, heat-resistant glass. Cullet, which is recycled glass, is often used as a raw material as well. Table salt is sometimes used to get rid of bubbles in glass Raw Materials in Glass
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The raw materials are stored in large containers They are mixed in with recycled glass, so it is not wasted The mixture melts at approximately 2800 F A long time ago, the glass mixture was melted in clay pots by burning wood, today, furnaces (tanks) are heated by gas or oil The tanks can hold 1 to 600 tons of glass Modern Glass-Making
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Flat Glass – windows Glass Containers – packaging food, beverages, medicine, chemicals, cosmetics Optical Glass – eye glasses, microscopes, telescopes, camera lenses Bullet-resistant Glass – banks, military tanks, aircraft, some automobiles Tempered Safety Glass – glass doors, car windows, basketball backboards Heat-resistant Glass – cookware household equipment Photochromic Glass – windows, sunglasses, instruments Chalcogenide Glass – electronic devices, laser surgery Types of Glass
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To know how strong glass can be, a variation of tests are performed How is physics used? Mechanical energy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDq iFRDPB4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDq iFRDPB4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gDq iFRDPB4 Thermal energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCnQVVfja bk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCnQVVfja bk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCnQVVfja bk The Study of Glass
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Annealing and tension in glass: http://www.cmog.org/video/annealing-and-tension-glass http://www.cmog.org/video/annealing-and-tension-glass Raw materials of glass: http://www.cmog.org/video/raw-materials- glass http://www.cmog.org/video/raw-materials- glasshttp://www.cmog.org/video/raw-materials- glass Coloring glass: http://www.cmog.org/video/coloring-glass http://www.cmog.org/video/coloring-glass Applications of tension in glass: http://www.cmog.org/video/practical-applications-tension-glass http://www.cmog.org/video/practical-applications-tension-glass The art of glass blowing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx6IrQLLpQE https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=zu-gzE_JQaA Glass horse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSB3-SzgoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSB3-SzgoQ How to make marbles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S- k_IQQGk3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S- k_IQQGk3Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S- k_IQQGk3A Glass Videos
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