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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:

  1. The reinforcement which consist of fibres/fragments of one material
  2. The matrix or binder material.

Composites have different properties to the materials in them.