Glass Spheres

DESCRIPTION

Glass spheres are spheres of glass manufactured for a wide variety of uses in research, medicine, consumer goods and various industries. These little peppercorn sized transparent glass spheres are made from soda-lime glass, familiar to us as the glass used for drinking vessels, bottles and windows. It is reusable and recyclable. Glass spheres are perhaps most familiar to us a marbles, but smaller, industrially produced glass spheres like this are known as ballotini, from the Italian for 'small balls'. Their main applications include reflective filler for road-marking paint and as abrasives for shot blasting and metal polishing. However, they can also be engineered into perfectly regular spheres for use as spacers in adhesives, to ensure a perfectly uniform thickness of bond, or for use as special bearings for oil drilling mechanics.