An Organic Polymer that can be hardened into a glass like substance?
Continuation question from this: The Biology behind a slime that uses hydrofluoric acid to disable and digest prey.
I've designed a slime that has a bunch of acids and non reactive polymers in its make up, and I was wondering if there would be a way to harden the polymers it produces into a faux glass? I know shellac is a similar material, but a stronger and possibly clearer substance would be best. Is it possible for a polymer with such an effect to exist in a highly acidic creature? (P.S. Anything with calcium would certainly be destroyed by the acid, so if calcium is required that rules it out.)
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