Awards are great for showing your appreciation to a person or group and rewarding them for their hard work. When you are choosing between glass and crystal awards, there are several differences between them. When glass awards are made, there are certain ingredients that are melted together, including a large quantity of sand and a few other additives.
The glass is then poured out in sheets and cooled.
Once it's cool, the glass can be cut into the different shapes of glass awarded. These awards tend to be a good deal thinner than crystal awards. Glass awards offer a number of different options in color. This is done by adding an extra colorant to the mixture when the glass is made. Crystal awards are made much differently, and they are much thicker than glass awards. This is a higher-quality material than glass.
There are optic crystal awards as well as lead crystal awards. Optic crystal is the same material used in specialty lenses such as in microcopes. Optic crystal does not include lead, and this makes it harder than lead crystal. Lead crystal is often used for cut crystal objects like bowls and vases that can also be given as awards.
