molten glass
Glowing liquid sand
Molten glass is glass heated to a liquid state, glowing orange or red and flowing like thick honey.
Glassblowers shape molten glass by gathering it on the end of a blowpipe and inflating it with breath.
The material cools and hardens rapidly once removed from the furnace: The artist worked quickly before the molten glass set.
- slumpingDeclining sharply, drooping
- glassblowingCrafting molten silica by inflation
- soda ashAnhydrous sodium carbonate
- emissivityThermal radiation ratio
- silicaSilicon dioxide compound
frit · viscosity · casting · fluidity · gather · cullet · glory hole · red hot · gaffer · extrusion · blob · incandescence · annealing · bubble · orange · transparency · surface tension · malleable
- hot thingsfire, flames, lava, magma, coals
- meltingthaw, thawing, defrosting, defrost, liquefaction
- molten substanceslava, magma, liquid metal
- glassworkglassblowing, lampworking, lampwork, flamework, copper foil
- glassblowingglassblower, blowpipe, furnace, glory hole, gather
- glassmakingglassblowing, furnace, kiln, millefiori, kilns
temperature/physical state
molten glasstempered glass
Heat-treated transparent sheet
ice · sheet glass · window glass · glass shard · crystal