how do you make glass?

Question

i'm helping my child on a report

Answer 1

There are many ways to make glass, it just depends on what type of glass you are using, as well as what you want to make. When you are making glass, you are mixing it with other chemicals to make it a certain color and strength, among other things. Glass is a combination of many things like: sand, fling, spar, and other silicious substances. One chemical will be a fixed alkaline, soda being the most common, and sometimes with a metallic oxide, litharge or a lead being common. These along with sand and other things can make up glass.

When making glass, the materials must first become a powder which is explained below.

To make glass or in this case fused quartz or fused silica, it is melted at around 2000 degrees C. You can use an electrically heated furnace or a gas-fueled furnace. Once melted, the material has a translucent or opaque look. An opaque look is due to small air bubbles are trapped in the material.

Synthetic silica is a rich chemical precursor that usually involves chemical gasification of silicon. The oxidation of this gas to silicon dioxide and thermal fusion will get a dust result. You can alter the process, but the results get a transparent glass, that has a high purity and optical transmission when exposed to ultraviolet light.

How To Make GlassSynthetic fused silica comes in powder form and is used in different things, such as: filler for rubbers and plastics, coatings, adhesives, cements, sealants, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, inks and abrasives.

Now that you have a powder, you sift out coarse parts and mix silex and flux together, put in furnace, and heat for five to six hours, stirring it often during this process. Once done the material is taken out and is called frit. It is then easily converted to glass by pounding it out and vitrifying it in a melting pot. This is the state when you can add different color and blow the glass to form different shapes and make different things.

Making glass is a time-consuming process, but many love to watch their creations form. They can then sell them in a store or decorate their home. You can do anything you want with glass if you have the right tools and time, but first make sure you know everything there is to know about the ingredients to make the glass in the beginning ti will save you time and money.

Answer 2

Then you need it simple - Glass is mostly sand (silicon dioxide) mixed with something (flux) to make it melt at lower temperatures (soda ash or potash) and something to make it durable (limestone) after the flux has made it prone to water damage. Other things are added to get rid of the green tone that iron adds and to make bubbles disappear during melting.