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This fused black cat with dichroic markings measures 8.25X 7 inches. It comes with a hook ready to hang on your wall and bring years of pleasure. It's got loving eyes for you!

Dichroic glass is costly because the glass is treated with various metal oxides to make it appear to have many colors. Developed for use in the American space program, dichroic glass is now popular as a jewelry and art material. To make dichroic glass, the glass must be sprayed with micro-layers of metals, usually including titanium, chromium, gold, zirconium, and aluminum. This is conducted in a vacuum chamber, which evaporates the metals and fuses them to the glass in extremely thin layers. The outlets fusion process creates a crystalline structure on the glass, which causes light to fracture. Each piece of dichroic glass has at least three colors: the color that reflects from the glass, the color of the glass, and a second refracted color that can be seen at a 45 degree angle. The process requires special equipment, and can be quite expensive to produce. It is quite difficult to photograph well as the glass reflects different colors from different angles and light. It is exceptionally beautiful in all different lights and well worth the added expense.