THE MAKING OF GLASS

The Egyptians were the first to use glass. They use it in a liquid form to glaze their
ornaments. The glass made by these early craftsmen was not transparent. Later, the Egyptians
discovered that a blop of molten glass on the end of a metal pipe could be blown into the
shape of a vase. Many beautiful vessels were then made.
While the glass-makers of long ago made their glass in small furnaces, modern glass-
makers use huge machinery in their glass making. But, like all glass-maker, modern glass-
makers too, use sand and soda, the soda melt and the sand dissolves in the soda. The result is
a hard transparent, glassy substance called water-glass. But this is of little use because it
dissolves in water. However, with the addition of lime, a durable glass is obtained.
The process begins with the mized raw materials being fed into a furnace and melted.
At first, this result in a sticky mass, full of bubbles when the temperature is raised, the glass
becomes more watery, and the glases forming the bubbles are able to escape. Next, the glass
is cooled until it is at the corret treacly state to be made into a sheet or whatever object is
desired. If a sheet of glass is left to cool naturally, it will break. To avoid this, it must be
annealed; that is, cooled down gradually in a lehr.
There were many methods for making sheet glass, but each one was discarded as each
had its own drawbacks. Today, sheet glass is made by the flat-draw process. In this, raw
materials are fed into the filling pocket of a tank, where they are melted. They flow into a
drawing kiln and are drawn up in the form of a sheet of glass by a series of electrically-
driven, asbestos cover rollers. As the glass is drawn up, it is allowed to cool gradually in an
annealing lehr and is then cut into sheets.
However, it is not only as vast sheets that glass is used. Tumblers, jars, bottles, lenses,
scientific apparatus and many other things are made from glass. Once, these were made by
men who blew the molten glass with a blowpipe and shaped it in a mould. Today, these
things are blown on automatic machines whose plungers pick up a measured amount of glass
from a tank and blow it into partial shape, giving it its final, exact shape in a mould.
In all these uses, glass is recognizable, but it is hardly recognizable as fiberglass. This
modern material is made from glass which is drawn into a fine thread and woven into a cloth.
When combined with special resins.





MAIN IDEA EACH PARAGRAPH
PARAGRAPH 1 :
The Egyptians were the first to use glass.

PARAGRAPH 2 :
the glass-makers of long ago made their glass in small furnaces, modern glass-makers
use huge machinery in their glass making

PARAGRAPH 3 :
The process begins with the mized raw materials being fed into a furnace and melted

PARAGRAPH 4 :
There were many methods for making sheet glass, but each one was discarded as each
had its own drawbacks

PARAGRAPH 5 :
it is not only as vast sheets that glass is used.

PARAGRAPH 6 :
glass is recognizable, but it is hardly recognizable as fiberglass



MAIN IDEA OF WHOLE PASSAGE

Explain the making fiberglass.





CONTEXT CLUE :
a) Discarded


b) Apparatus


c) Molten


d) Mould


e) Durable


















5 W + 1 H ?
(QUESTION AND ANSWER)


QUESTION :
1. What the main idea of the whole paragraph?
Answer : expain the making fiberglass

2. Who to use the glass first?
Answer : The Egyptians were the first to use glass

3. When the glass transparent?
Answer : when the Egyptians discovered that a blop of molten glass on the end of a
metal pipe could be blown into the shape of a vase

4. Where the raw material are fed?
Answer : In this, raw materials are fed into the filling pocket of a tank, where they are
melted

5. Why Fiberglass makes a plastic material which is fast replacing wood and metal?
Answer : because fiberglass is as strong and durable as they and yet lighter.

6. How the proccess make the glass ?
Answer : The process begins with the mized raw materials being fed into a furnace
and melted. At first, this result in a sticky mass, full of bubbles when the temperature
is raised, the glass becomes more watery, and the glases forming the bubbles are able
to escape. Next, the glass is cooled until it is at the corret treacly state to be made
into a sheet or whatever object is desired. If a sheet of glass is left to cool naturally, it
will break. To avoid this, it must be annealed; that is, cooled down gradually in a leh