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One day, thousands of years ago, some fishermen camped on a sandy beach T
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next morning one of the men found a strange stone in the ashes* of the campfire. He boa
never seen a stone like it before. Wondering what it was, he picked it up. When he turnoa
it over in his hands, he saw the morning sunlight shining right through it. He was sur。
that it had not been on the beach the night before. Could the fire in some way have made
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this strange material?
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It is thought that this may have been theway people first discovered glass. You can
make glass by mixing sand with certain chemicals in a very hot fire. Perhaps, by accident. all
of these materials were mixed with the sand on that beach.
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