It is a super cooled amorphous material. It consists of more than 50% silica and other additives such as oxides of aluminium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, titanium, lithium, lead, and potassium. It has applications in windows, containers, lighting instruments, cookware, etc. The availability of various types of glasses is soda-lime glass, lead-alkali glass, borosilicate glass, etc.
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