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| − | '''Glass''' is a transparent, strong, brittle material. Glass could be made from [[sand]], although making glass requires a lot of [[energy]]. Glass may be combined with [[plastics]] to increase its strength and [[radiation]] [[radiation shield|shielding]] capabilities. Glass may be used in [[Greenhouse|Greenhouses]] but it may prove too heavy. | + | '''Glass''' is a transparent, strong, brittle material resistant to most chemicals. Glass could be made from [[sand]], although making glass requires a lot of [[energy]]. Glass may be combined with [[plastics]] to increase its strength and [[radiation]] [[radiation shield|shielding]] capabilities. Glass may be used in [[Greenhouse|Greenhouses]] but it may prove too heavy. |
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| + | A glass-blower can create a very wide variety of useful instruments and chemical equipment from Martian sand, although these will often have to be designed very differently from the analogous equipment on earth. The glass-blowing craft requires only other small-scale crafts for its equipment (brick-making for the furnace and blacksmithing for its iron tools), thus qualifies as a small-scale craft suitable for a frontier town (small and largely self-sufficient) economy. | ||
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Revision as of 16:19, 11 February 2010
Glass is a transparent, strong, brittle material resistant to most chemicals. Glass could be made from sand, although making glass requires a lot of energy. Glass may be combined with plastics to increase its strength and radiation shielding capabilities. Glass may be used in Greenhouses but it may prove too heavy.
A glass-blower can create a very wide variety of useful instruments and chemical equipment from Martian sand, although these will often have to be designed very differently from the analogous equipment on earth. The glass-blowing craft requires only other small-scale crafts for its equipment (brick-making for the furnace and blacksmithing for its iron tools), thus qualifies as a small-scale craft suitable for a frontier town (small and largely self-sufficient) economy.
