What Temperature Does Glass Melt at to Recycle?

Dispose of a glass bottle and you may see it again one day as a new bottle. Because glass is 100 percent recyclable, glass makers can use it repeatedly to make new glass products. The glass manufacturing process uses a ...
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What is Fused Quartz?

“Quartz glass: A clear vitreous solid, formed by melting pure quartz, that can withstand high temperatures and is extremely transparent to infrared, visible, and ultraviolet radiations. Also called fused quartz, fused silica.” (from: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English ...
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How to Identify Clear Quartz Crystal

Quartz is the most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust. You can find quartz in sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks, and in geological curiosities like geodes. While quartz has numerous varieties that vary in color and crystal type, Rock Crystal ...
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How Glass is Made? – The Art of Glass Making

Even though we look at the glass as one of the most common building material for various kitchen utensils, windows, wide variety of ornamental small objects, and important part of modern computer communications, its initial use by our earliest ancestors ...
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What Are the Differences Between the Minerals Calcite and Quartz?

Quartz and calcite are common minerals in the rocks around the world. Both minerals form in a variety of colors, such as purple, white, brown, gray and colorless, which at times makes them appear similar. However, these two minerals have ...
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How to Use Beakers

A beaker is a cylindrical container used to store, mix and heat liquids in laboratories. Most are made of glass, but other non-corrosive materials, such as metal and heat-resistant plastic, are also used. Beakers usually have a flat bottoms and ...
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How to Bend and Draw Glass Tubing

Bending and drawing glass tubing is a handy skill for managing laboratory glassware. Here is how to do it. Note About Glass There are two main types of glass using in a lab: flint glass and borosilicate glass. Borosilicate glass may carry a label ...
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Differences in Lab Glassware

If you're working in a lab or taking a lab class, you'll encounter many different kinds of glassware, each of which has features that make it especially well-suited to certain applications. Lab glassware you're almost guaranteed to encounter includes flasks, ...
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Is Glass a Liquid or a Solid?

Glass is an amorphous form of matter. It is a solid. You may have heard different explanations about whether glass should be classified as a solid or as a liquid. Here is a look at the modern answer to this question ...
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How Can I Tell the Difference Between Fluorite & Quartz?

Quartz and fluorite are two very different minerals, each with a different hardness and crystal structure, although on the surface they look very similar. Both rocks come in clear or white tones, as well as purple, pink, blue and green ...
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