Glass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass

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mycelium · 2017-12 · Strong recommendation

The awesome youtube channel Applied Science put out a 40 minute intro video to melting your own glass a week or two ago, going into the equipment, chemistry and recipies: [VIDEO] In particular, he talks about making your own photochromic glass that changes color in response to light. I'd highly recommend his channel to anyone interested in science and fabrication.

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tomn · 2018-04 · Recommendation

This was really interesting -- not a process I've ever realy thought about. You might enjoy this, Ben Krasnow talking about the challenges of making photochromic glass: [VIDEO]

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kragen · 2022-02 · Reference

Agreed! Aside from the spurious results produced by publication bias, the amount of effort spent on trying things that somebody already knows don't work is staggering. The knowledge of what doesn't work is mostly passed on tacitly through apprenticeship rather than published, which means it can easily be lost. As a simple example, we've known how to make transparent glass for 1900 years, but it took Ben Krasnow two months to achieve it himself despite having money, libraries, and glass experts at his disposal, and being generally competent at making things, having built, for example, his own electron microscope: [VIDEO]

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