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Glass can be formed through natural processes like lightning strikes or volcanic activity. Ancient cultures used naturally occurring glass like obsidian for tools and weapons. Traditional glassmaking methods included core-forming, where molten glass was placed around a clay core, and casting, where glass pieces were placed in a clay mold. However, the blown glass method developed by the Romans made glass production much faster and more efficient. Glassblowers use blowpipes to gather and shape hot liquid glass, revolutionizing glassmaking.

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Material What Materials Do You Know?

Glass can be formed through natural processes like lightning strikes or volcanic activity. Ancient cultures used naturally occurring glass like obsidian for tools and weapons. Traditional glassmaking methods included core-forming, where molten glass was placed around a clay core, and casting, where glass pieces were placed in a clay mold. However, the blown glass method developed by the Romans made glass production much faster and more efficient. Glassblowers use blowpipes to gather and shape hot liquid glass, revolutionizing glassmaking.

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MATERIAL

WHAT MATERIALS DO YOU KNOW?


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About Glass and How Its Made

At the Smithsonian American Art _______, you can see a large heart-shaped
______ made of blown glass. The deep red colored heart is topped with a _______
flame also made of glass. It is called the “Sacred Heart of Healing” and was made
by the ______ Tim Tate. How did he make this interesting glass form? Today we
answer this question as we _______ the art of making glass.
Throughout history, people from cultures around the world have been making
glass. People first found and used glass made by _______. For example, lightning
can create tubes of glass when it strikes sand that has the right combination of
__________. Glass pieces produced by lightning are called fulgurites.
Obsidian is a kind of black glass formed when the heat of a volcano melts the silica material in
sand. Ancient cultures broke off pieces of obsidian to make knives and weapons such as arrows.
The ancient Aztec civilization in current day Mexico used obsidian for making hunting tools
and jewelry. The Aztecs made extremely sharp knives and weapons from obsidian. This is one
reason experts say they never developed the use of metal.
Glass is considered a physical state of matter. It may look solid, but it is a liquid as well. This is
because glass has the hardness of crystal materials while also having a disordered arrangement
of molecules like a liquid.
The chemical quality of glass is what makes up its color. Impurities in glass such as iron can
give it a green or brown color. Adding chemicals to the glass can give it different color
intensities and effects. For example, adding copper to glass can make it blue, while adding tin
can make it white.
second color of glass to make designs over the first layer of
glass. Once the glass form cools completely, it is taken off the
metal stick. The clay inside is carefully cut out to form a glass
container.
Another ancient method of making glass that is still used today
is called casting. Casting involves making a clay form in which
the shape of the glass container is carved. Then, the artist puts
small pieces of glass material inside of the clay form. When it is
cooked at a very high temperature, the glass pieces melt and
take the shape of the clay form. Once the solid glass object
cools, an artist uses special tools to carve an opening in the
container.
But it was another method of making glass --the blown glass
method-- that changed the glass industry of the ancient world. It
was first developed in the Roman Empire about two thousand
years ago. This new technology made glass production faster
and less costly. A glass container made by casting or core-
forming could take a few days to make. With glass blowing, an
artist could make many containers in a day.
Glassblowing involves gathering hot liquid glass on the end of a
metal pipe called a blowpipe. The glass reaches a temperature
of about one thousand degrees Celsius. At this temperature, the
glass is a bright orange color.  The glassblower must turn the
pipe constantly so that the thick liquid glass does not fall off the
end. He or she then blows through the pipe so that the glass

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