If they weren't transparent, we wouldn't use them for glasses.
Yes.
atoms vibrate, causing it to heat up. Making it transparent.
It came be each but not all three (or even both) at the same time. Window glass is transparent, bathroom glass is translucent and volcanic glass is opaque.
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