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Learn how a highly skilled glassblower creates scientific apparatuses
Murano: glassblowing glassblowing
Why cold glass can't flow
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Learn how a highly skilled glassblower creates scientific apparatuses
Portrait of Jim Breen, a glassblower at the University of California at Berkeley.
Video: Displayed by permission of The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Why cold glass can't flow
Learn if cold glass can flow.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Chun Ju Wu/Dreamstime.com

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Glassblowing pipes being heated in a furnace.
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Murano: glassblowing
An artisan blowing glass on Murano island, near Venice.
© Bojan Brecelj—The Image Bank Unreleased/Getty Images
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Molten glass on a glassblowing rod.
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