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The darkness of a jade-ite item is a result of the amount of impurities it contains. Most of this is “scrap cullet”, or junk glass scraps that were simply disposed of into a vat of jade-ite glass “slag”. The cullet included not only scraps from work areas, but beverage bottles from the plant floor as well. Glass factories were hot.
