Glass



Glass

A ** glass ** is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle, and often optically transparent. Glass is commonly used for windows, bottles, modern hard drives and eyewear; examples of glassy materials include soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass,sugar glass, Muscovy-glass, and aluminium oxynitride. The term // glass // developed in the late Roman Empire. It was in the Roman glassmaking center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term // glesum // originated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance. It could be used in many things, Provides beauty to all the things, is breakeable, provides comfort, Could be painted and coloured.