Strange Quark Today

Very attractive material is required and is used for many applications in the world today. Many applications like front displays in shops and mirrors all use glass for their needs. This has led many people to ask themselves how glass is made and its use in windows and doors today. Most applications are in businesses and homes. [...]

Early in the brief history of glass windows, around 5000 BC, Phoenician stone merchants discovered that a mixture of limestone and molten sand, when cooled, turned into a glassy substance. We now call this soda glass. Fifteen hundred years later, opaque beads made from the substance were being fashioned in Egypt and in Mesopotamia. [...]