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| TRUE OR FALSE, FAIENCE CAME BEFORE GLASS? |
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| NAME THE AREA WHERE GLASS WAS FOUND/ FIRST ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE. |
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| NAME THE THREE MAIN CATEGORIES THAT GLASS IS MADE FROM AND WHAT THEY DO. |
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| Silica (melts at 1700’C), flux (lowers temperature to help silica melt), stabilizers (helps make glass more durable) |
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| WHAT ARE TWO SILICA SOURCES? |
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| WHAT CONTENT IN THE SILICA WILL CAUSE THE GLASS TO HAVE A GREENISH TINT? |
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| WHAT PERCENTAGE OF GLASS IS SILICA? |
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| WHAT TYPE OF MINERAL AND TWO VEGETABLE SOURCES ARE GOOD FLUX SOURCES? |
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| Natron, halophylic plants (salt loving plants) and inland plants |
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| WHAT CALCIUM SOURCE IS A GOOD STABILIZER? |
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| NAME THREE COLOUR SOURCES FOR GLASS. |
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| Ores, metals and other coloured glass |
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| NAME THE FIVE STAGES GLASS WAS MADE IN ANTIQUITY AND A BRIEF EXPLANATION. |
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| Raw materials (silica + flux + stabilizer), fritting (heating of raw materials to form a frit), melting, working and annealing (controlled heating/cooling of finished artefact to prevent breaking) |
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| NAME THE SIX MAIN TYPES OF GLASS WORKING. |
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| Blowing, molding, vessel glass and jewelry, windows, formed glass and casting/slumping |
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| WHO INVENTED GLASS BLOWING? |
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| WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPAQUE AND TRANSPARENT GLASS? |
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| Opaque has a crystalline structure whilst transparent does not |
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