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Plant your glass ingredients! Glasswort
« on: July 14, 2008, 12:57:20 PM »
Kelp was a major product in medieval Scotland and widely used in the soap and glass industries - first used in soap then the waste used in glass. The Scots also made extensive use of ferns and seaweed to obtain glass ingredients.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasswort


Not the reason early glass was often green though!
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