richsantaclaus

It's cool - just a love of glass is all we need to agree on! It has been an interesting journey in this thread for me and thanks to you all for the fun.

Reactive Glass Glass that has metallic elements from the periodic table in them sometimes react with each other to make another color. Some of my favorite glass for marble making is silver glass. By that I mean glass that is infused with silver. And that silver cause chemical reactions. Those reactions translate to fusing or kiln forming glass. When silver and sulfur get together good things happen. When copper and sulfur get together more good things happen. The meeting of the glasses causes color changes or in the instance of turquoise and ivory or French vanilla a ring or brown or black outlines wherever the glass meets. Sky blue and ivory or dark ivory make a black line between them. When two glasses come into contact during heating and create a third color, specific ingredients in the two “reactive” glasses almost always cause this reaction. The most common ingredients, which lead to a reaction are: sulfur, selenium, copper, lead, and silver. As the chart below illustrates, reactions between these ingredients tend to fall into seven main categories. ........................Sulfur..........Selenium........Silver Copper................X ..................X Lead....................X...................X..................X Silver...................X....................X ...................X indicates a reaction between the two ingredients.................. Here is another way to look at the reaction combinations: 1. Copper - sulfur reaction 2. Copper - selenium reaction 3. Lead - sulfur reaction 4. Lead - selenium reaction 5. Lead - silver reaction 6. Sulfur - silver reaction 7. Selenium - silver reaction

I'll do just that. I give marbles to kids all the time. The last gig I did at a career day at an elementary school, I gave 600 kids 5 marbles each = 3000 marbles! In light theory, white is the accumulation of all colors. Paint is A liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating. Historically, paint was made with the yolk of eggs and therefore, the substance would harden and stick onto the surface it is applied to. I guess if you started with a white base, it wouold be considered a color but that is a guess.

Good example of a glass reaction using reactive glass and what a beautiful marble!!!!! It was the basic Periodic Table elements that made the nice looking green line when the two reactive glass colors came into contact with each other at the molecular level. The glass itself didn't make the green but the metals in the original glass that did - what a wonderful example - thanks!!!!! Same with the black/white reactions - I've had that same problem making a Zebra marble - another perfect example of chemical elements reacting but that was blending not mixing. Thank you for the great examples!!! If you'd like, I can make some marbles to show more reactive glass colors that show different colors because of the metals inside the making of the glass rod. I can send them to you too if you want them - PM me an address and they are yours when I make them and after I post the results. Rich

And...... what a marble it is!

Dang, so are those!!!!!

That marble is just beautiful!

I can't answer your questi0n BUT I think it's a killer mib!!!!!

I'll see you there!!!!!

Blended, as I see in the picture, is what happens when the molten glass is twisting both inside the oven when blending with the other colors and makes the curves sometimes as the marble first travels down the rollers. Glass blends but doesn't mix like paint does. Please give me until tomorrow to show you the marbles that are in my kiln for pictorial examples. They will certainly show you what i am trying to convey about glass (if I am lucky...lol). It took me a long time with several attempts to mix glass to make different colors as I have tried at least 20 times to make a pink glass that was vibrant pink with no luck. It could be that I didn't have the right formula but I did get 16 different pink rods that were made in Italy, Germany and the USA for the experiment - failed each and every time - that glass did not go pink like I was trying to get. The glass did blend but not mix.

update - I have the 3 marbles in my kiln - pictures tomorrow for you guys.

I wanted to go SO badly..... Thanks for these wonderful pictures and I'll be there in 2012!

Nice finds! Sure wish I could have gone this year!

Powder won't work as it makes the glass get muddy - come over and I'll show you Galen. Today I'll make 3 marbles for you guys using red, white and blue but you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see the results as I always anneal my work for safety. One marble will be 6 2" pieces and I'll attempt to twist the heck out of them to try and blend them so the original colors will go away and make a lite purple color (if it reacts like paint). The 2nd marble I'll smash the 6 2" pieces into frit and make a frit marble out of them. The 3rd marble of 6 2" pieces I'll make glass powder and make a marble out of that to see if that will make a new color. Rich

Actually, chemical reactions can give other colors in glass. Silver metals, coppers and golds can give altered colors in glass. All this is done at the molecular level Galen. You can not take red and white glass, for example, and make pink in glass - it is impossible! I'd love to see anyone put two colors together and make a third color in glass. (We are not talking bout the reactive glass as I described above.) Paint colors, of course you can. but not glass. Someone suggest 2 different colors and I will do the experiment and take pictures for you to show you what will happen. I'll be back next week from my vacation in Utah, Nevada and California taking photos.

No, glass blends and paint mixes. You can't take white glass and red glass and make pink glass. Blending white and red glass makes red/white blends of glass - no pink anywhere in the marble.

I see three (white, lite blue and brown) with plenty of blends.

lol.. I know...lol

These pictures are awesome!

I had no idea what they'd look like as all I did was melt chip colors together. Mother Nature speaks!

Both Kugler glass and the Salute Run cullet - I mixed chips

I took 1/4 to 1/2 inch cullet chips and made combination marbles with them - like them? Rich

What a wonderful show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting these memories for others to see Edna. Rich

Leroy - there are people today that make figurines that look like the ones from long ago the exact same size as the old ones!

Beautiful, just beautiful!