
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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