Look around you.
I am
willing to bet that unless you are in a storm cellar or bank vault you can see
some glass from wherever are sitting or standing.
Either in the windows around you, the table
top where your laptop is, the globes on the light above you, or the martini
glass you are drinking from as you read. So, what is glass?
Crazy as it may sound, glass is made out of sand!!
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Take a
little ordinary sand from your kids’ sand box, mix it with some soda ash (sodium
carbonate) and some lime (calcium carbonate) . Stir it all together then heat
the mixture to 3090 degrees for about 10 hours, and, Voila!
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You will have
molten bright orange glass!
From this point,
any number of processes can take place to create endless glass shapes for
function or for art.
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Stay tuned for future blogs about what fabulous things you can do with glass while it is still molten and the after it is made into sheet glass!!!!
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