Modern Glitter
Today over 20,000 varieties of glitter are manufactured in a vast number of different colors, sizes, and materials. Commercial glitter ranges in size from 0.002"2 (50 microns) to 0.25"2 (6250 microns). First, flat multi-layered sheets are produced combining plastic, coloring, and reflective material such as aluminum, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, bismuth oxychloride. These sheets are then cut into tiny particles of many shapes including squares, rectangles, and hexagons.
The first production of modern glitter has been sometimes been credited to American cattle farmer and machinist, Henry Ruschmann, shortly after the start of WWII. With German glass glitter unavailable due to the war, Ruschmann found a market for scrap material ground into glitter made of plastics. He founded Meadowbrook Inventions, Inc. in Bernardsville New Jersey, and the company is still a major producer of industrial glitter today.
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