ASSIGNMENT PART A READ THIS ARTICLE HOSTED BY THE CRUCIBLE ON LAMP WORKING + FLAME WORKING 101 . Another Demonstration: How to Make Glass Beads! Glass generally starts becoming malleable enough to shape at 1200 degrees F. ANNEALING EXPLAINED Annealing Annealing is a term used in both metal and glass industries. When you heat glass, it expands and as it cools it contracts. This sets up stresses between the interior and the surface of the glass and if the glass cools too qui

VISIT THIS PAGE AND WATCH THE PBS VIDEO ASSIGNMENT PART A Read through in class, create a basic timeline of glass in your journal...

Properties of Hot Glass When heating glass to a molten or near molten state - full fuse (1450° F) it behaves like a very thick liquid. Surface tension naturally pulls the material into the most stable, lowest - energy shape it can achieve. For a flat piece of glass on a kiln shelf, that stable form is a uniform sheet that becomes ¼" (6mm) thick with rounded edges. A standard sheet of glass is approximately 1/8" thick. When firing a single layer of glass the edges will con

Watch the following videos. These provide additional tips and tricks for cutting straight and curved lines as well as using a glass grinder to refine your glass pieces. Take the quiz on Schoology.

Assignment: Design a proto-type for a cement tile using clay. Design requirements: Tile should be an abstract or non-objectiv e...

UNIT OVERVIEW Material Science: We will begin by investigating the properties of ceramics. In class students will be working with clay...

August 18- September 10 What are crystals? Crystals are a special kind of solid material where the molecules fit together in a repeating...

Welcome to the Art + Science of Materials. Intro. PPT. Syllabus After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and...