Essay on the Glass

The glass is a non-crystalline amorphous solid, it is mostly transparent. The glass is mainly made of the chemical silica (SiO2). According to the archaeologists, the history of glass is about 3600 years old in Mesopotamia. One of the oldest clues of glass are found in India in 1730 BC, china 475 BC to 221 BC and in Romans during the first century. The glass is typically made from liquid sand, the ordinary sand that is made of silica oxide is melted at very high temperature 1700 degree until it turn in to liquid after that glass is made from it (Hill, 2016). In the present time, the usage of glass is widespread in technological, decorative, crockery, art work, construction fields.

There are a lot of types of glasses, for example float glass, toughened glass, tinted glass, obscured glass, mirrored glass, coated glass, painted glass etc.  All of the types of glass can use for different material in making different material.  The floating glass is typically used in construction material such as making the building glasses. Toughened glass is typically use in the kitchen and bathroom; this glass can also improve the overall safety and security.

The tinted glass is used for climate control and reduces the radiation from the solar energy, this glass is mostly used in the windows of house to protect the inside environment from UV rays. The obscured glass is normally used in commercial and domestic because of the privacy purposes because it not allow to see through it and only let the light to travel across it. Mirrored glass is mainly uses to see the reflection, it also used for decorative purposes and in the buildings to create a larger space illusion of place.

Coated glass is uses in interior designing and for the aesthetical purposes. In the painted glasses the wire mesh in added into the glass by using different colors in it that can many can place more colorful (Cmog.org, 2011).

Summing up the discussion it can be said that in the present time the use of the glass in widespread in different areas. The origin of glass is very old and people have been using the glass since very long.  There are many of the advanced forms of glass that can be used for different purposes. More uses of glass currently are for the constructional and decorative purposes.

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