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Innovations in Scientific Glass

Scientists continue to research the properties of glass. They experiment
with new ingredients to improve it. They test glass at a range of temperatures.

Scientists want to create glass
that is even more resistant to
breakage. This will allow more
medicines to be shipped safely
around the world. Antimicrobial
glass is a recent invention. It
prevents bacteria from growing on
glass. This greatly reduces germs
on things, such as smartphones.
Scientists have also created an Antimicrobial glass
ultra-thin, flexible glass. It is stops germs from
thinner than a human hair. It can spreading on things
people touch.
be rolled up like a sheet of paper.

This thin, flexible glass can
bend without breaking.
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