The best way to understand glass is to understand how it is made. The first step to make glass requires heating up a mixture of minerals – often soda ash, limestone and quartz sand – until they melt ...

A study conducted at the Center for Research, Education and Innovation in Vitreous Materials (CeRTEV) in São Carlos, São Paulo state, Brazil, shows for the first time that including niobium oxide ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The best way to understand glass is to understand how it is made. The first step to ...