The mystery of childhood: why did glass beads Bashny.Net

Children treasures. Balls of colored glass with a diameter of about two centimeters. The most valuable are the blue, green and brown balls. In the fall of the balls are not broken, they are only split off pieces.

One of the main advantages of the balls of their origin was a mystery.




The beads ever found or received as a gift. There were several versions of the "official" destination and origin balls:
1. The ball is in aerosol containers, where craftsmen have been removed;
2. Balls are a way of transportation of glass containers, in particular for rail transport.

Glass beads were children's currency in exchange relations. They are also worn as talismans, and, of course, used for games. Special rules of the game, how the west was not. It was necessary to successfully just snap your fingers at its ball, so he knocked the "field" enemy ball.

We used glass beads and adults: the Institute of Chemical orientation (to displace the air from the tube), for interior decoration (balls "soldered" to the wall), to decorate aquariums.



Further replicas from various "nostalgic" forums:

We have close to the airport and was told, and there is a legend of origin: when the plane takes off from the friction of the chassis on asphalt and huge temperature asphalt and every dust-dirt in it melt, and then glaze.

And my older brother brought these balls from the glass factory - they are friends climbed over the wall and plucking their pockets full. They said that these balls there - a dime a dozen, lying around everywhere. I was full of green, one red and the most beloved - blue.

I remember coming out by a court on the railroad to look for these balls. There were quite rare, and with great joy. And we have such balls were "freely - convertible currency" ... and ... exchange rates were colorless - the cheapest, dark green - 1 unit = 10 colorless, blue and milky-white - at least 20 pieces transparent. We rolled the balls in the hole. Who is the most accurate - and that takes away all the wealth

we had the following theory of the origin of the globules - at the studio during filming for the image of glittering treasures especially used, well then of course turned out in our yard once ...

And we have come to the school and asked the police to hand over the glass beads, they allegedly poisonous. Just because I think no one-not the police drove to the conversation in each class. No of course not passed ... But maybe because radioactive waste transported? We find them on the rail, the colors of all shades of blue and green.

The main purpose of these initial and glass beads tumbling. Rather balls themselves are tumbling bodies.

Tumbling bodies are used in the processing of the measuring, medical and hand tools; automotive parts, motorcycles, bicycles, watches; cutlery; turbine blades; propellers; gears; hardware; metal products; ferrites; porcelain insulators; sanitary fittings; chains; cutlery; buttons; parts of prostheses; furniture, footwear, etc. metallofunitury and more.

Tumbling bodies are used as a filler in the processing of parts for deburring, rust, blunting the edges, reduce roughness, surface hardening:

in rotating drums of different types (rotary, mounted, sealed, perforated, planetary, etc.); a vibrating container, which is used instead of the rotational vibration effects in the 2 or 3 directions, which enables the processing of fragile and small parts without damage.



Glass beads - a spherical molded articles made by cooking quartz sand, fluorspar, limestone, alumina, boric acid, etc. In a glass melting furnace at high temperature. Glass beads are manufactured with a diameter of 22 ± 1 mm. They contain boron oxide (B2O3), weight percentage of not less than 7%. On physical and chemical properties of glass beads are non-toxic, explosive, flammable. These characteristics allow the neutral is widely used glass beads. Glass balls are semi-finished raw material to produce glass for various purposes, production of woven and nonwoven fibers. Also, the glass beads are used for the dispersion of solids and liquids (especially often in the bead mill). As packaging for glass beads used soft containers Big-Bag, designed for transportation and storage of bulk cargo.

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