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Glass: a transparent tool for a fairer planet

01 Jun 2022 James Dacey
Taken from the June 2022 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline "A transparent tool for a fairer planet".

Glass-based technologies are shaping the modern world, from enabling green tech to delivering the Internet. James Dacey describes how the 2022 International Year of Glass will celebrate the universality of this see-through super material

Glass vials containing COVID-19 vaccine
Storage solution Billions of glass-based vials have been manufactured over the past few years to deliver COVID-19 vaccines. (Courtesy: iStock/solarseven)
When the idea for a year-long celebration of glass was first proposed in 2018, at the annual meeting

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James Dacey is a multimedia journalist based in Madrid
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