Glass can be coloured by adding metal salts or painted and printed as enamelled glass. In its most solid forms, it has also been used for paperweights and marbles. Due to its ease of formability into any shape, glass has been traditionally used for vessels, such as bowls, vases, bottles, jars and drinking glasses. The earliest known glass objects were beads, perhaps created accidentally during metalworking or the production of faience. Archaeological evidence suggests glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 BC in Mesopotamia, Egypt, or Syria. Some objects, such as drinking glasses and eyeglasses, are so commonly made of silicate-based glass that they are simply called by the name of the material.ДЄlthough brittle, buried silicate glass will survive for very long periods if not disturbed, and many examples of glass fragments exist from early glass-making cultures. The term glass, in popular usage, is often used to refer only to this type of material, although silica-free glasses often have desirable properties for applications in modern communications technology. Soda-lime glass, containing around 70% silica, accounts for around 90% of manufactured glass. The most familiar, and historically the oldest, types of manufactured glass are 'silicate glasses' based on the chemical compound silica (silicon dioxide, or quartz), the primary constituent of sand. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling ( quenching) of the molten form some glasses such as volcanic glass are naturally occurring. Glass is a non- crystalline, often transparent amorphous solid, that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics.

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