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GreenWave

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2. Next "mystery". Is glass a liquid?

Reply to Warpy (Original post)

Sat Jan 7, 2023, 05:14 PM

Jan 2023

If you say no, wait a few hundred years.

Next mystery why does broken old glass mixed with a new batch of molten glass make it even stronger? Hades if I know but it does!

Oh your first mystery was blood. Air pockets allow for expansion and contraction.

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