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Tech Blog: Guy Uses Regular BBQ Grill to Make Glass from Sand
The UberReview: Video: Glass Made on a Charcoal Grill (Don’t Try This at Home)
Gizmodo: PopSci Shows You How To Make Glass On A Grill, Begs You Not To Do It [Science Experiment]
MAKE Magazine: HOW TO - Making glass with a grill and vacuum cleaner
Guy Uses Regular BBQ Grill to Make Glass from Sand
Tech Blog —
... glass from sand. To be more specific, all you "need to do is add washing soda, lime or borax to white-silica beach sand and a grill overclocked to reach temperatures of 2000-degrees F." Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
I mixed the finely ground ingredients together and heated them in a cast-iron pot, then poured the molten glass into a graphite mold and pressed it down with a graphite stamp.
[via Gizmodo - Popsci]
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Video: Glass Made on a Charcoal Grill (Don’t Try This at Home)
The UberReview —
... is possible to reduce the temperature required to make glass from 3,000-3,500°F to a still toasty and very dangerous 2,000°F. He manages to attain this temperature using a vacuum cleaner and a Weber grill and produces a small glass ornament for his troubles.
He adds the disclaimer, which is worth noting, that pushing a grill beyond its intended temperature range is very dangerous (the video is proof enough of this). Video after the jump.
[PopSci]
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PopSci Shows You How To Make Glass On A Grill, Begs You Not To Do It [Science Experiment]
Gizmodo —
... on a regular charcoal grill? Sure it's incredibly flamey and pretty dangerous, but according to the folks at Pop Sci, it's possible! All you need to do is add washing soda, lime or borax to white-silica beach sand and a grill overclocked to reach temperatures of 2000°F. Check out Theodore Gray feeding a concoction of silica and washing room regulars into a cast-iron pot over a flaming grill and getting two pretty medallions out of it. Try to resist doing this at home afterwards. [Popsci] ...
HOW TO - Making glass with a grill and vacuum cleaner
MAKE Magazine —
... All the components of glass can be found in two places: the beach and the laundry room. It’s possible to melt pure white-silica beach sand into glass, but only at temperatures of 3,000 to 3,500°F. Washing soda, lime or borax (a traditional laundry aid) added to the sand disrupts the quartz-crystal structure of silica and reduces the required temperature to a more practical, though still dangerous, 2,000°F, which I achieved with a backyard grill and a vacuum cleaner. Glass is thought to have been discovered around 7,000 years ago by Phoenician merchants when cooking fires were ...
