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glass goblet; diamond-point engraving
Louvre Museum
glass; Prince Rupert's Drop
glass goblet
glassblowing
glass bowl
Portland Vase
Murano: glassblowing
Ravenscroft, George: glass mug
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Favrile glass vase
Observe how a superhydrophobic multifunctional glass surface resists fogging, glare, and self cleans
Why cold glass can't flow
scientific glassblowing
Understand refraction and why the speed of light changes when it travels through glass
How are old bottles recycled into new ones?
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Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
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