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For my project, I have studied glass. Glass has an almost infinite number of uses in the modern day, but many people take it for granted and never actually think why it is so we suited to its many tasks.
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Physics Speech For my project, I have studied glass. Glass has an almost infinite number of uses in the modern day, but many people take it for granted and never actually think why it is so we suited to its many tasks. I will look mainly into glass' optical properties, but will also cover a few of its other many uses. I will start by looking at its chemical make up to find out why it is such a versatile material. Chemically speaking, glass is a very interesting. Glass is primarily made of silicon dioxide, the chemical found in quartz sand, commonly known as silica. A silica molecule results from the covalent bond between the silicon and the oxygen atoms. Crystalline silica forms a regular three-dimensional lattice, with each silicon atom forming a covalent bond with four oxygen atoms, making its primary structure tetrahedral in shape. To convert the silicon dioxide to...
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