[HN Gopher] Glorious glass - worth more than gold?
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       Glorious glass - worth more than gold?
        
       Author : drdee
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2023-07-14 20:38 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | Chris2048 wrote:
       | That "Imported Roman blown-glass rhyton with a deer's head" sure
       | looks a lot more like a snail..
        
         | KaiserPro wrote:
         | That was my thought too..
        
       | eye-robot wrote:
       | Sorry, but cooktops are definitely NOT glass....
        
         | exceptotron wrote:
         | Induction cooktops are.
        
       | hinkley wrote:
       | I find myself from time to time wondering how we discovered
       | vitreous materials in the first place. Roaring fire on a mud flat
       | perhaps? Kids putting random shit in campfires?
        
         | ProjectArcturis wrote:
         | Very large bonfires might reach about 2000F. Sand melts to
         | glass at 3000F.
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         | Obsidian is volcanic glass. We might have also seen glass near
         | meteorite impacts, or perhaps lightning strikes. If not from
         | those natural phenomena, we might have discovered it as a side
         | product of smelting copper, or perhaps some shop's apprentice
         | messing around with the furnace.
        
           | isaacg wrote:
           | In particular, copper smithing predates glassmaking, 10000
           | years ago versus 4000 years ago
        
         | woleium wrote:
         | cooking fires on the beach i'd imagine.
        
         | KaiserPro wrote:
         | Perhaps its from metallurgy? or maybe cooking fires that got
         | out of hand in a home made stove?
        
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