Glass — Google Arts & Culture Home Explore Play Nearby Profile The Lab Achievements Collections Themes Artists Mediums Art movements Historical events Historical figures Places About Settings View activity Send feedback Privacy & Terms • Generative AI Terms Celebrating 15! Home Discover Play Nearby Favorites The Lab Sign in Loading… Glass In layman’s terms, glass is understood to refer to the manmade silica-based material used to make such items as window panes, bottles and drinking vessels. To the materials scientist, however, the term glass refers to a specific state of matter, often called the ‘glassy’ state; its defining property is that, regardless of its chemical composition, the material has solidified from the liquid state without forming any crystals, and thus at the atomic level lacks the regular ordered structure of normal crystalline solid materials. The ‘glassy’ state of matter is therefore the random, three-dimensional network of atomic bonds in the liquid state, which is preserved in the solid state; glass is therefore sometimes described as a ‘super-cooled’ liquid. It is a truism of science therefore that almost anything can be made into a glass if it is cooled down fast enough from the liquid state to prevent the formation of crystals as the material solidifies; the required rate may very well be measured in millions of degrees per second. Show lessRead more© Grove Art / OUP 12 stories View All StoryThe History of GlassReading Public Museum StoryHerati GlassTurquoise Mountain StoryArt Nouveau GlassMasovian Museum in Płock StoryNear Eastern Glass WareMarine Heritage Gallery Jakarta StoryThe Miracle of Czech GlassMuseum of Decorative Arts In Prague StoryTeflon, ceramic and glass utensils to cook with gasCocina Cinco Fuegos Story40 Years of Glass MakingArts Council England StoryPhotographing GlassAuckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira Story"It's More Like Being an Electrician"Museum of Decorative Arts In Prague StoryGlass: The Old, The New, The NaturalGeoscience Australia StoryVersion 2 - OLDCorning Museum of Glass StoryA New Glass for a New Era: Borosilicate GlassCorning Museum of Glass Discover this medium 52,973 items Organize by More mediums Stained glass4,210 items Fiberglass1,104 items Lead glass2,274 items Milk glass87 items Murano glass45 items Crystal2,870 items Metal236,403 items Photograph331,799 items Rock164,718 items Wood93,821 items Gold71,639 items Textile109,892 items More artists Mathew Brady3,026 items Alfred Maudslay1,680 items Alphonse Bertillon441 items Pierre-Louis Pierson340 items René Lalique367 items Carleton Watkins1,632 items Interested in Science? Get updates with your personalized Culture Weekly No, thanks Sign up now You are all set! Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week. Ok Translate with Google Google apps