Glass Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
What is glass?
A: Glass is a non-crystalline, amorphous solid that is often transparent and has widespread practical,
technological, and decorative usage in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optoelectronics.
The most familiar, and historically the oldest, types of manufactured glass are what?
A: "Silicate glasses" based on the chemical compound silica (silicon dioxide, or quartz), the primary constituent of sand.
The term glass, in popular usage, is often used to refer only to this type of material, which is familiar from use as what?
A: Window glass and in glass bottles.
Of the many silica-based glasses that exist, ordinary glazing and container glass is formed from a specific type called what?
A: Soda-lime glass, composed of approximately 75% silicon dioxide (SiO2), sodium oxide (Na2O) from sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), calcium oxide (CaO), also called lime, and several minor additives.
Many applications of silicate glasses derive from their optical transparency, giving rise to their primary use as what?
A: Window panes.
Glass will transmit, reflect and refract light; these qualities can be enhanced by cutting and polishing to make what?
A: Optical lenses, prisms, fine glassware, and optical fibers for high speed data transmission by light.
Glass can be colored by adding what?
A: Metallic salts, and can also be painted and printed with vitreous enamels.