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2. Mercury glass - Wikipedia

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   Mercury glass. Mercury glass (or silvered glass) is glass that was blown double walled, then silvered between the layers with a liquid silvering solution, and sealed. Although mercury was originally used to provide the reflective coating for mirrors, elemental mercury was never used to create tableware. Silvered glass was free-blown, then ...

3. The 32 Best Christmas Ornaments of 2023 - AOL

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   The limited edition set of four glass ornaments includes a Christmas tree, reindeer, snowman, and Santa Claus, all inspired by the legendary 19th-century American poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas ...

4. Christmas ornament - Wikipedia

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   Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven, blown ( glass or plastic ), molded ( ceramic or metal ), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene, or made by other techniques. Ornaments are available in a variety of ...

5. Unbreakable glass - Wikipedia

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   According to Petronius ( c. 27 AD – c. 66 AD) in his work Satyricon, an inventor brought a drinking bowl to the Roman emperor Tiberius made of vitrum flexile - translated as either flexible or unbreakable glass - which did not shatter but merely dented. Tiberius asked if anyone else was aware of the invention.

6. Bulletproof glass - Wikipedia

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   Bulletproof glass, ballistic glass, transparent armor, or bullet-resistant glass is a strong and optically transparent material that is particularly resistant to penetration by projectiles. Like any other material, it is not completely impenetrable. It is usually made from a combination of two or more types of glass, one hard and one soft. [1]

7. Poly(methyl methacrylate) - Wikipedia

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   Poly ( methyl methacrylate) ( PMMA) is the synthetic polymer derived from methyl methacrylate. It is used as an engineering plastic, and it is a transparent thermoplastic. PMMA is also known as acrylic, acrylic glass, as well as by the trade names and brands Crylux, Hesalite, Plexiglas, Acrylite, Lucite, and Perspex, among several others ( see ...