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The metals in the glass cause the glass to act as a "filter",
to remove the entire light spectrum, but the color you see.



To obtain green glass, you add iron to the sand mixture,
causing the entire color spectrum to be absorbed by the
glass, but green. To produce pink glass, you must add pure
gold to the mixture. The color of glass will be as brilliant
700 years from now as it is today.

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