A bottle is a narrow-necked container as compared with a jar. Bottles come in various shapes (round, oval, square, etc) and sizes and are often made of glass, clay, plastic, aluminium or other impervious materials. They are used to transport and store liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo, ink, and chemicals. A device applied in the bottling line to seal the mouth of a bottle is termed an external bottle cap, closure, or internal stopper. A bottle can also be sealed by a conductive "innerseal" by using induction sealing.
The bottle has developed over millennia of use, with some of the earliest examples appearing in China, Phoenicia, Rome and Crete. Bottles are often recycled according to the SPI recycling code for the material.
