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.
Explain why you can't get a suntan through glass.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Mark Miodownik
- Director Iuri Araújo, Guilherme Araújo
- Narrator Addison Anderson
