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Why is glass transparent? - Mark Miodownik

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If you look through your glasses, binoculars or a window, you see the world on the other side. How is it that something so solid can be so invisible? Mark Miodownik melts the scientific secret behind amorphous solids.

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Educator
Mark Miodownik
Director
Iuri Araújo, Guilherme Araújo
Narrator
Addison Anderson

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