Vocabulary Focus - Glass

- to melt a glass batch in the furnace, to refine (remove bubbles), to form, to cool, to blow glass, to cast molten glass into a mold, to solidify, to press molten glass, pressed/ cast/ blown/ slumped(bent) glass, surface treatment: coating, etching, cutting, polishing, painting, enameling, faceting; brittle, transparent, fragile; manufactured glass, mass-produced glass; variety of faults (cracks / faulty containers)