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2. 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.

3. Wine glass - Wikipedia

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   A wine glass is a type of glass that is used for drinking or tasting wine. Most wine glasses are stemware (goblets), composed of three parts: the bowl, stem, and foot. There are a wide variety of slightly different shapes and sizes, some considered especially suitable for particular types of wine.

4. Poly(methyl methacrylate) - Wikipedia

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   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 . This plastic is often used in sheet form as a lightweight or shatter-resistant alternative to glass. It can also be used as a casting resin, in inks and coatings, and for many ...

5. Flexible glass - Wikipedia

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   It has been suggested this was either to protect the existing glassmaking industry, [2] to ensure that glass remained breakable as an effective planned obsolescence or because he feared that the glass would devalue gold and silver, since the material might be more valuable. [3]

6. Food contact materials - Wikipedia

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   Food contact material pictogram (left) on a plastic food container in Hong Kong. Food contact materials or food contacting substances (FCS) [1] [2] are materials that are intended to be in contact with food. These can be things that are quite obvious like a glass or a can for soft drinks as well as machinery in a food factory or a coffee machine.

7. Faceted glass - Wikipedia

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   A classic 20-facet Soviet faceted glass, produced in the city of Gus-Khrustalny since 1943. A faceted glass or granyonyi stakan (Russian: гранёный стакан, literally faceted glass) (Ukrainian: hranchak гранчак, derived from грань, meaning facet) is a type of drinkware made from especially hard and thick glass and having a faceted form.