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Why is glass see-through?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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The History of Glass Blowing

Glass blowing is a technique that dates back 35 hundred years. The romans realized they could take this glassy, molten substance and put it at the end of a hollow tube to inflate it like a balloon. So that's where glass blowing started. But humans aren't using volcanoes or lightning strikes to make glass.

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