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2. Glass bead road surface marking - Wikipedia

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   Incident light is refracted within glass beads on road surfaces and reflected into the driver's field of view. Road paint with reflective glass beads being applied to a pedestrian crossing in Baliuag, Bulacan. Glass beads composed of soda lime glass are essential for providing retroreflectivity in many kinds of road surface markings. [1]

3. Retroreflective sheeting - Wikipedia

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   They are also used as a material to increase the scanning range of barcodes in factory settings. The sheeting consists of retroreflective glass beads, microprisms, or encapsulated lenses sealed onto a fabric or plastic substrate. Many different colors and degrees of reflection intensity are provided by numerous manufacturers for various ...

4. Silvering - Wikipedia

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   Silvering on the inside of a glass test tube Silvering is the chemical process of coating a non-conductive substrate such as glass with a reflective substance, to produce a mirror . While the metal is often silver , the term is used for the application of any reflective metal.

5. Glass bead making - Wikipedia

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   Lampworking-closeup Lampwork glass beads. Glass bead making has long traditions, with the oldest known beads dating over 3,000 years. [1] [2] Glass beads have been dated back to at least Roman times. Perhaps the earliest glass-like beads were Egyptian faience beads, a form of clay bead with a self-forming vitreous coating. Glass beads are ...

6. Powder glass beads - Wikipedia

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   Krobo powder glass beads, bicones. Powder glass beads are a type of necklace ornamentation. The earliest such beads were discovered during archaeological excavations at Mapungubwe in South Africa, and dated to between 970-1000 CE. Manufacturing of the powder glass beads is now concentrated in West Africa, particularly in the Ghana area.

7. Chevron bead - Wikipedia

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   The term rosetta first appeared in the inventory of the Barovier Glass works in Murano, in 1496, in context with beads as well as with other glass objects. Venetian chevron beads are drawn beads, made from glass canes, which are shaped using specifically constructed star moulds. The first chevron beads were made towards the end of the 15th ...