Chinese New Year. In the decorative arts, a bird is rarely just a bird and a flower seldom represents a simple flower. These evocative symbols conjure different narratives, ideas, and emotions according to the context in which they are portrayed and the viewer who observes them. That is what makes them so powerful.
Glass is formed by heating sand to its melting point. Objects are  then either cast or blown to their desired shape and allowed to  cool slowly    Glass is made from â¦ a mixture of sand and other materials. Just  regular sand can be made into glass, but it must be heated to about  3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Volcanic glass or obsidian maybe gave someone the idea. Or, maybe, the nodules of glass that can form when lighting goes to ground through sand. In any event, glass is made by â¦ heating sand until it melts. Actually, the sand particles have to be separated first. If you just melted sand you would get a dark, non-transparent glass. You have to find the clear crystals in the sand to make glass. It is then melted and either blown or molded into the desiered shape. Glass was probably discovered after a volcanic eruption near a beach. Glass was first created by the Phoenicians and the Egyptians.