the usual ingredients for commercial glass or sounds of soda ashlie and often recycled glass it's all crushed together and melted at well over a 1000 degrees celcius. when the molten mass cools it undergoes a transformation into a tough but amorphous solid meaning it can be shaped into everything from bottles and drinking glasses to window panes. while other solids like metals may be pliable and flexible glass is hardened brittle. when it's put under too much pressure it doesn't deform it breaks. and for that reason it rarely survives a fall. or a big temperature difference between say ice cold water and a hot glass bottle while filling a cold glass with boiling water is likewise not a great idea. unlike metals glass is a poor conductor of heat. so if you pour cold water into a hot glass the inside surface of the glass contracts. but the outside remains warmer creating a strain inside the material small fracture. as for months spread causing the glass to break. glass can also be shattered by sound when of the right frequency the sound has to be very loud and sustained over this to wor