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.
Lava. Category: Lava is made up of crystals, volcanic glass, and bubbles (volcanic gases). As magma gets closer to the surface and cools, it begins to crystallize minerals like olivine and form bubbles of volcanic gases. When lava erupts it is made up of a slush of crystals, liquid, and bubbles. The liquid freezes to form volcanic glass. Chemically lava is made of the elements silicon, oxygen, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and titanium (plus other elements in very small concentrations.