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The Science of Glass

In Our Time

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The Importance of Glass in Engineering

Glass is now moving into industry and engineering. Some glasses are semiconducting in the dark, but often start conducting electricity when they're exposed to light. That's the basis, for example, for the Xerox process. I think why some glass are brittle and others are strong. In Pyrex, a hard glass was discovered for laboratory purposes.

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