what is frosted glass?
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yea it is that glass that looks whitish, it looks like if you put a normal glass in the freezer :)
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You're going to have to elaborate some more.  What is a Newton's Glass?
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pumice is considered a glass too. The texture is formed by rapidly expanding gas in erupting lava.
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I can think of two things you might be referring to... see my references.\n\nThe color glass condensate is an extreme type of matter theorised to exist in heavy ion collisions.\n\nThe second refers to materials that are "frustrated", that is have more than one ground-state.
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Etching is another word for scratching.  Hailstones are mostly ice, which isn't abrasive enough to scratch glass.
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This is pretty much a question of the definition you are using.\n\nIn a strict definition, conventional solids have a crystalline structure. Under this definition, glass is a supercooled, highly viscous liquid rather than a conventional (crystalline) solid. \n\nIn many ways, glass acts like a solid. Using that behaviour as a criterion, glass is a solid.
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Glass consists of a mixture of silicates, barates or phosphates that cools to a rigid condition without crystallization. (It can be made of quartz-sand, lime, soda, potash and lead oxide.) Crystal falls into the 3 main categories. Fine Crystal or Crystalline is made from a glass mixture that contains 6% - 10% lead oxide. Lead Crystal is made from a glass mixture that contains 10% - 24% lead oxide and Full Lead Crystal is made from a glass mixture that contains 24% lead oxide or more. For the most part, crystal by European standards regards 24% lead bearing glass as crystal. However, by American standards, any glass that is perfectly clear is considered crystal regardless of the lead content. Lead oxide in crystal gives the product clarity and sparkle. Any crystal that is hand-cut usually must be 24% lead oxide or over - otherwise the crystal would be too brittle and would break when cut or engraved.
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An amorphous metal is a metallic material (usually an alloy rather than a pure metal) with a disordered atomic-scale structure. In contrast to most metals, which are crystalline and therefore have a highly ordered arrangement of atoms, amorphous alloys are non-crystalline. Materials in which such a disordered structure is produced directly from the liquid state during cooling are called "glasses", and so amorphous metals are commonly referred to as "metallic glasses" or "glassy metals". ...
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What is  ' End of Day Glass'?
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some is reflected by the glass, and some passes straight through.  A tiny part will go towards heating up the glass itself, as it is absorbed during its transition throught the glass.
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the glass in your galsses is cooler then the air escaping from under the tissue. this will fog the glasses, much like coming in from outside on a cold day
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this glass is only produced for home use...it has a certain amount of chemical in it & that chemical mix of glass is protected by copyright\n\nIt is not suited for auto use but lends itself to illegal activities & hightened security risk of peace officers...\n\nTherefore ... the manufacturers of this glass have agreed to limit it to use in buildings & will not produce an auto version..\n\nas for who makes it...?\n\ni don't know
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A crystal (most likely from a Greek word which means "ice") is a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions.\n\nGenerally, crystals form when they undergo a process of solidification. Under ideal conditions, the result may be a single crystal, where all of the atoms in the solid fit into the same crystal structure. However, generally, many crystals form simultaneously during solidification, leading to a polycrystalline solid. For example, most metals encountered in everyday life are polycrystals. Crystals are often symmetrically intergrown to form crystal twins.\n\n\nWhich crystal structure the fluid will form depends on the chemistry of the fluid, the conditions under which it is being solidified, and also on the ambient pressure. The process of forming a crystalline structure is often referred to as crystallization.\nSynthetic bismuth crystal\nEnlarge\nSynthetic bismuth crystal\n\nWhile the cooling process usually results in the generation of a crystalline material, under certain conditions, the fluid may be frozen in a noncrystalline state. In most cases, this involves cooling the fluid so rapidly that atoms cannot travel to their lattice sites before they lose mobility. A noncrystalline material, which has no long-range order, is called an amorphous, vitreous, or glassy material. It is also often referred to as an amorphous solid, although there are distinct differences between solids and glasses: most notably, the process of forming a glass does not release the latent heat of fusion. For this reason, many scientists consider glassy materials to be viscous liquids rather than solids, although this is a controversial topic; see the entry on glass for more details.\nInsulin crystals\nEnlarge\nInsulin crystals\n\nCrystalline structures occur in all classes of materials, with all types of chemical bonds. Almost all metal exists in a polycrystalline state; amorphous or single-crystal metals must be produced synthetically, often with great difficulty. Ionically bonded crystals can form upon solidification of salts, either from a molten fluid or when it condenses from a solution. Covalently bonded crystals are also very common, notable examples being diamond, silica, and graphite. Polymer materials generally will form crystalline regions, but the lengths of the molecules usually prevents complete crystallization. Weak Van der Waals forces can also play a role in a crystal structure; for example, this type of bonding loosely holds together the hexagonal-patterned sheets in graphite.\n\nMost crystalline materials have a variety of crystallographic defects. The types and structures of these defects can have a profound effect on the properties of the materials.\nGallium, a metal that easily forms large single crystals\nEnlarge\nGallium, a metal that easily forms large single crystals\nA large artificial monocrystal grown by Saint-Gobain for the megajoule laser of CEA.\nEnlarge\nA large artificial monocrystal grown by Saint-Gobain for the megajoule laser of CEA.\n\nWhile the term "crystal" has a precise meaning within materials science and solid-state physics, colloquially "crystal" refers to solid objects that exhibit well-defined and often pleasing geometric shapes. Various shapes of such crystals are found in nature. The shape of these crystals is dependent on the types of molecular bonds between the atoms to determine the structure, as well as on the conditions under which they formed. Snowflakes, diamonds, and common salt are common examples of crystals.\n\nSome crystalline materials may exhibit special electrical properties such as the ferroelectric effect or the piezoelectric effect.\n\nThe behaviour of light in crystals is described by crystal optics. In periodic dielectric structures a range of unique optical properties can be expected as described in photonic crystals.\n\nCrystallography
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Glass is made up of mostly silica sand.  In order for the sand to become glass, it must be heated up to a super-hot tempature of 1,982°C/3.600°F.\nUsually white sand is preferred when making glass, because of lower concentrations of iron, which turns the glass a greenish color.\nSometimes lead is added to sand to make a softer type of glass with exceptional clearity.  Max. lead content can only be 33%.  It is more complex to work with, but easier to cut.\n\nTwo natural glasses that occur are: obsidian, a natural by-product of volcanic eruptions; also, fulgrites, which are formed when lightning strikes sand or rocks, super-heating then cooling, forming glass.
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On a recent camping trip, we put an empty glass bottle into the fire to try to melt it.  It half melted into an interesting shape.  We fished it out and allowed it to cool.  After it had completely cooled it had micro cracks all over it.  The next day, with no outside influence, the bottle broke from the internal stresses that it got in the fire.  Glass is an amorphous material.  It is actually a supercooled liquid.  A plate glass window will get a wider thickness on the bottom and a thinner thickness on the top.  It takes a very long time for the thickness to be noticeable.  but it will eventually flow down into a puddle.  This will take about 200,000 years.\n\nGlass, basically, is very brittle.  Brittle materials break easily.
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I can only think of two:\n\n1 Plate glass, where molten glass is spread on a water-cooled surface such as a steel tray.\n\n2 Float glass, where molten glass is poured on a container of molten tin or lead.\n\nGlass windows in years past (colonial America for example)  where window glass was blown, as a glass blower might make a bottle, then while still hot, the "bottle" was punctured at the base, and spun harder, centrifugal force flattening the "bottle" into a roughly flat surface. Maybe that would be called "spun glass" and be a third category?\n\nAnybody else?\n\nOuzinki
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Glass is composed of mainly silicone, heated to a high temperature until it forms a supercooled liquid. Sand is the most common form of raw material used in making glass though silica is sometimes used. Other materials can be added in to give extra strength or changes in its composition to make specialized products such as pyrex, coloration and certain metals are added to add colour to it.