Glass
Soda Lime Glass
Most glass is soda-lime glass. To make it mix: sand, sodium carbonate and limestone. Heat the mix in a furnace and melt. It has a low melting point.
Borosilicate glass
Made by heating a mixture of sand and boron trioxide.
Composites
Composites are made by combining two different materials:
- The reinforcement which consist of fibres/fragments of one material
- The matrix or binder material.
Composites have different properties to the materials in them.