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How exactly does nothing (or almost nothing) react with glassware?

I've been watching CodysLab and HTME on YouTube and seeing them put all those incredible reactive and dangerous into glass started wondering why/how it works?  Are there other things that are as resistive to chemicals as glass is?
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It really depends on the chemical in question, but plastics can hold lots of things and even some things that glass cannot (think of how many household chemicals are sold in plastic containers).  Some metals are also great at holding things, especially various grades of stainless steel.

The main reason this works is that there are relatively few ways that glass can interact with chemicals inside.  The surface of glass is a bunch of Si-O bonds with usually H+ hanging onto the surface O, or some other positive ion like Na+.  For anything that isn't basic enough to pull that proton off the surface the glass will be fairly inert.  However, this means that glass is really bad at holding strong bases.  If you ever mix up a solution of NaOH you best store it in a plastic bottle.

Plastic is good in different ways.  Plastics are not usually susceptible to basic attack, and most are fine against acids as well.  However, some organic solvents can worm their way into the polymer chains and essentially melt the container or just leak through, and that isn't a problem organic solvents have with glass.