Glass is much more resistant to corrosion than most materials, so much so that it is easy to think of it as corrosion-proof. Glass windows after several years exposure to the elements remain clear and apparently unaffected. Glass bottles hold a wide range of liquids that would dissolve other materials. In the laboratory, reactions are carried out in glass beakers and flasks without damage to the beakers or contamination of the solutions reacting.
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But, in spite of these indications that glass is indestructible by chemical attack, under certain conditions it will corrode, even dissolve. In these cases, it is important to choose the right type of glass, since some are more corrosion resistant than others. Only a few chemicals aggressively attack glass -- hydrofluoric acid, concentrated phosphoric acid (when hot, or when it contains fluorides), hot concentrated alkali solutions and superheated water. Hydrofluoric acid is the most powerful of this group; it attacks any type of silicate glass. Other acids attack only slightly; the degree of attack can be measured in laboratory tests but such corrosion is rarely significant in service for acids other than hydrofluoric and phosphoric.
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Acids and alkali solutions attack glass in different ways. Alkalis attack the silica directly while acids attack the alkali in the glass.

Sodium hydroxide slowly reacts with glass to form sodium silicate