Didymium: The Unreal Element in Glassworking Glasses

Glasswork is an ancient technology--though it's perhaps more apt to describe it as an art--that's been subject to refining and improvement over countless generations. While you might not expect new developments to emerge very often in such an old field, technology has a way of surprising us with its potential for synergy. What you'll see below is a material called didymium at work. Occurring naturally as a combination of the elements Praseodymium and Neodymium (which you might be familiar with t...