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When silica or quartz is heated up to 1650 degree C it

melts to a colourless liquid which on cooling gives glass.

SUPERCOOLED LIQUID

liquid which is cooled to a stage where its viscosity is so


great that the molecules do not move freely enough to form
crystals.
The manufacturing process of glass consisting of the
following four steps

Melting the charge

Fabrication of the article

Annealing the article formed

Finishing treatments

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