what is fiber glass made of?

Question

im doing a report and cant find it online at all
any sites i could go on or if anyone knows what it is
made out of

Answer 1

Fiberglass is made from extremely fine fibers of glass. Glass is mae from a mixture of sand, soda and lime melted together.

Answer 2

Bulk glass is made by traditional methods (melting and cooling of some glass former and network modifier compounds). The bulk glass is suspended and one end is heated until it softens. This end is then pulled from the bulk glass. Like cheese on a pizza, the softened glass begins to stretch but does not break. With continuous heat applied to the bulk glass the fibre is continously pulled (maintaining uniform diameter by maintaining equal pull rate) and cooled usually by rolling onto a spool. There are a number of different compositions used for glass fibre, but the cutting edge fibre has an engineered microsturcture to reduce micro-bending loss. This is the loss of signal when the fibre is not straight thus altering the path length.

Answer 3

fiber glass used in making things is thin strands of glass fiber as other describe and plastic resin that holds them in place. The material gets its tension strength from the glass which may be random mat or cloth woven. and other strength from the resin keeping the glass in place so it can't shift.
fiber glass insulation is thin glass fiber but coated with a thin layer of stick stuff and blown into fluff before the sticky stuff dries so it says separated and holds air, which does the insulation because it can't move.

Answer 4

Glass fibers! It's originally a trademark "Fiberglas"