Once the solid glass object cools, an artist uses special tools to carve an opening in the container.

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The artist can shape the hot glass using metal tools such as jacks, tweezers and shears.

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It will be standing room only on the Capitol grounds -- the Secret Service says no lawn chairs, nor umbrellas or signs will be allowed -- and the lengthy list of banned items includes aerosol spray, air horns, coolers, glass, hand tools, laser pointers, pepper spray, strollers, and thermoses.

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Other important containment tools include the tin can, glass jar, aerosol can and pill capsule.

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Coating tools once used to put films on sheets of glass are being tweaked so they can also rapidly coat thousands of individual wafers.

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