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why some of the glass objects recovered from ancient monuments look milky instead of being transparent?

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Glass is an amorphous solid and it is converted into crystalline form by alternate heating and cooling. Glass objects of ancient monuments undergo heating due to exposure to sunlight and are cooled at night and thus beome partly crystalline. This gives them a partly milky appearance.

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