Sugar glass is not glass at all, but a mixure of sugar, corn syrup and water, which looks like glass when finished. It is used in stunt sequences of films where using real glass would be more dangerous, such as diving through a window or breaking a bottle on a person. Although sugar glass is less dangerous than real glass, it can still cause injury when shattered. After a sheet of sugar glass is made, it must be used soon afterwards. Otherwise it will start to become soft and sticky, and tends to warp as well. Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colours as shown in this ball from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ... Magnified crystals of refined sugar In general use, non-scientists take sugar to mean sucrose, also called table sugar or saccharose, a white crystalline solid disaccharide. ... Corn syrup, known as glucose syrup outside Canada and the United States, is a syrup made from corn starch and composed mainly of glucose. ... Water (from the Old English waeter; c. ... A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in TV, theatre or cinema. ...
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