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Ah, borosilicate- where would we be without you?? Check out this quick read from Corning about the history of the lovely glass that makes all our work possible!

All About Glass | Corning Museum of Glass Otto Schott, the pioneering German glass chemist, made a glass that could reliably do something that didn’t seem possible: endure sudden, uneven temperature shifts without shattering. The key, Schott discovered in 1882, was to have a critical amount of the element boron in the glass recipe. Schott...