What makes Glass and some types of Plastic clear? Why couldn’t we make clear metal or other “clear” Materials?

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What makes Glass and some types of Plastic clear? Why couldn’t we make clear metal or other “clear” Materials?

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Light is an electro magnetic radiation. Glass is transparent to a particular frequency of EM radiation at other frequencies glass is opaque. Similarly other materials can also become transparent to different frequencies of EM radiation. You have a sheet of wood and it is transparent to certain frequencies of radio which also EM radiation.

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