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Composite body, painted, and glazed bottle. Dated 16th century. FromIran. New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A bottle is a rigid container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a mouth. By contrast, a jar has a relatively large mouth or opening
which may be as wide as the overall container. Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic, aluminium or other impervious materials, and
typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo, ink, andchemicals. A device
applied in the bottling line to seal the mouth of a bottle is termed an external bottle cap, closure, or internal stopper. A bottle can also be
sealed by a conductive "innerseal" by using induction sealing.
The bottle has developed over millennia of use, with some of the earliest examples appearing in China, Phoenicia, Rome and Crete. Bottles
are often recycled according to the SPI recycling code for the material. Some regions have a legally mandated deposit which is refunded
after returning the bottle to the retailer.