Monday, March 10, 2008

How to make a glass?

A lot of people in the world use glass everyday. This simple item is very useful but easy to make. There are several steps to make a glass. First of all, the ingredients which are sand, soda and limestone are put in a furnace. After this step the process is divided into two ways. The first way is to make a plate glass and the other is to make a bottle glass. In the making of a plate glass, the ingredients from the furnace now are located in a big tray and have mix up perfectly. Out from the big tray, there is a roller that is used to roll the mix up ingredients and shapes it into a plate glass. In the other hand, in the making of a bottle glass, the ingredients that out from the furnace are enter the removable mould that is use to shape the ingredients like a bottle. This step is helped by the air that faster the solidify of the bottle glass. After a while, the ingredients are shaped into a bottle glass, and the mould is removed. And that's it. Simple ingredients can turn into two kind of glass, which are plate glass and bottle glass and ready to be selling in the market and use by people in the world.

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