• Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers...
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    or Syria. The earliest known glass objects were beads, perhaps created accidentally during metalworking or the production of faience. Due to its ease of...
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    Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively...
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    metal-working (slags) or during the production of faience, a pre-glass vitreous material made by a process similar to glazing. Glass products remained a luxury...
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    Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass. Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with...
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    technique in the 1950s at their production site in St Helens, Merseyside. Modern windows are usually made from float glass, though Corning Incorporated uses...
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    glass objects have been recovered across the Roman Empire in domestic, industrial and funerary contexts. Glass was used primarily for the production of...
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  • success, and by April 2017 Shyamalan announced that he started the production process for Glass. The film had its world premiere in select Alamo Drafthouse Cinema...
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    industrial process of glass manufacturing, transition phases of product changes (such as thickness and color changes) and production offcuts. External cullet...
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    Gorilla Glass is a brand of chemically strengthened glass developed and manufactured by Corning. It is in its eighth generation. Designed to be thin,...
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  • Libbey, Inc., (formerly Libbey Glass Company and New England Glass Company) is a glass production company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. It was originally...
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  • Looking Glass Studios, Inc. (formerly Blue Sky Productions and LookingGlass Technologies, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Cambridge...
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    elaborately decorated, with various "hot" glass-forming techniques, as well as gilding, enamel, or engraving. Production has been concentrated on the Venetian...
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    Glassblowing (redirect from Glass blowing)
    thinner layers of glass cool faster than thicker ones and become more viscous than the thicker layers. That allows production of blown glass with uniform thickness...
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    Crown glass was an early type of window glass. In this process, glass was blown into a "crown" or hollow globe. This was then transferred from the blowpipe...
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  • Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 福耀玻璃工业集团股份有限公司) is a Chinese glass manufacturing company established in 1987 and is headquartered in Fuqing...
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    headquartered in Westminster, Colorado. It is best known for its early production of glass jars, lids, and related products used for home canning. Since its...
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  • most common types of glass production sulfate raw materials are used, in particular, Na2SO4, decomposing into SO2 and O2. Glass types that melt at comparatively...
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    for about 50% of consumption, is for the production of glass. Selenium compounds confer a red color to glass. This color cancels out the green or yellow...
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    stained glass windows, and glass lamps. However, due to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, glass production has suffered a decline. The glass industry...
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    manufacturers continue the vaseline glass tradition: Fenton Glass, Mosser Glass, Gibson Glass and Jack Loranger. U.S. production of uranium glasses ceased in...
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  • Annealing is a process of slowly cooling hot glass objects after they have been formed, to relieve residual internal stresses introduced during manufacture...
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    for the production of indigenous glass beads. During the Han period (206 BC to 220 AD) the use of glass diversified. The introduction of glass casting...
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  • Optical glass refers to a quality of glass suitable for the manufacture of optical systems such as optical lenses, prisms or mirrors. Unlike window glass or...
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    the glass is removed. In hollow glass production (hollow glass), the glass machine below is fed with glass gobs. In flat glass production (float glass),...
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    Pressed glass (or pattern glass) is a form of glass made by pressing molten glass into a mold using a plunger. Although hand pressed glass has existed...
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  • company is a manufacturer of glass for flat panel displays (FPD). It has about 20% share in the world's production of glass for liquid crystal displays...
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    A glass bottle is a bottle made from glass. Glass bottles can vary in size considerably, but are most commonly found in sizes ranging between about 200...
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    indicates in his Natural History (36.193) that lathes were used in the production of most glass of the mid-1st century.[citation needed] Italy is believed to have...
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    Art glass is a subset of glass art, this latter covering the whole range of art made from glass. Art glass normally refers only to pieces made since the...
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