Glass Notes Name ___________________________
1. Ceramics are inorganic nonmetallic materials that are usually made using clays and other minerals from earth.
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2. Examples of ceramic materials are: Glass, bricks, clay, cement, and
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3. Draw a picture that represents the disordered state of glass:
4. Three ingredients required to make glass are:
a) Soda
b) Lime
c) Sand
5. What natural events can create “natural glass”? Volcanic eruptions______________________ and Lightning
strikes________________________
6. The earliest man-made glass objects were Nontransparent glass beads_____________________.
7. What city has remained the center of glass blowing since the Middle Ages? Venice _______________________
8. What is sheet glass?
Sheet glass is flat glass first made in the 11th century by German glassmakers. They blew a glass ball, stretched it
into a tube, cut it open, and flattened it. The flat pieces were joined with lead to make windows.
9. What is crown glass?
Its when glass was blown into a crown shape and then and then flattened by reheating and spinning it and then
cut into the size you wanted.
10. What technology was developed that makes mass production of bottles possible?
The gob feeder-IS machine
11. Why is the current method for making glass called “float”?
Because the glass is floated on a layer of molten tin
12. What is a glass “batch”?
The ingredients used to make glass
13. Why is broken glass added to the glass mix?
To lower the melting points of the batch
14. Why is glass annealed?
To help relieve the internal stress after the glass was formed by slow cooling.
15. What is the function of the powder added to finished glass sheets?
16. The main characteristics of glass are”
a. Solid and hard material
b. Disordered and amorphous structure
c. Fragile and can break easily into sharp small pieces
d. Transparent to visible light
e. Inert Active material
f. Safe for packaging and 100% recyclable
17. Glass molecules are bonded together by strong ionic and covalent bonds. This type of bonding affect ceramic
properties in the following ways:
a. Ceramics have higher melting points
b. Ceramics are brittle
c. Ceramics are poor heat and electrical conductors
d. Glass can contain medal atoms
e. Ceramics are resistant to corrosion
f. Glass ceramics are strong
18. Why is glass transparent?
Because the molecules are not arranged in an orderly fashion and there are gaps. And this lets light pass through
these gaps.
19. The 4 main types of glass are:
Name Uses Chemical Composition
Commercial glass As a bottle for medicine 60-75% Silica 12-18% Soda and 5-12%
Lime
Lead glass Glass projects and class art 54-65% Sio2 and 18-38% Lead oxide and
13-15% Soda
Borosilicate Glass Used in Edisons lightbulb Has at least 5% boric oxide
Fused silica Glass Space shuttle window High purity synthetic amorphous silicon
dioxide
