tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post2234586519158036304..comments2023-07-31T10:39:53.182-05:00Comments on The Blog of the American Chesterton Society: Dr. Thursday's Post: GlassNancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-24530180997133977352008-07-20T22:32:00.000-05:002008-07-20T22:32:00.000-05:00'Chemical Elements and Their Compounds'...possibly...'Chemical Elements and Their Compounds'...possibly a book order I placed for you awhile back? <BR/><BR/>- ChrisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-79833127789382890382008-07-05T10:54:00.000-05:002008-07-05T10:54:00.000-05:00I just read this again, and feel quite chagrined a...I just read this again, and feel quite chagrined at having overlooked something - something rather important.<BR/><BR/>There <I>are</I> windows made from carbon - er - carbon compounds. Rather important ones, in fact. They are the cornea and lens of the eye. But these, of course, are given to us, not made by us.<BR/><BR/>Also, nowadays, there are a number of transparent plastics from which windows can be made. Still, glass has an ancient history which is still in vogue in our day, and even the wonderful modern plastics have not supplanted it. <BR/><BR/>But one hardly considers these things in thinking of carbon as graphite, or coal, or (in the organic sense) as wood or muscle. And silicon itself and many of its common compounds are hardly transparent: granite, for instance.<BR/><BR/>So my allusion is still reasonable. I just wanted to <I>clear</I> it up. (hee hee)<BR/><BR/>--Dr. ThursdayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com