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quartz glass
quartz glass
noun
- a colourless glass composed of almost pure silica, resistant to very high temperatures and transparent to near-ultraviolet radiation Also calledsilica glassnitreous silica Sometimes shortened toquartz
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quartz glass1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
Microsoft is using regular quartz glass, and the company has boiled, baked, and scratched it to test resilience.
From The Verge
Another test used an engine with a small quartz glass window so engineers could see how the synthetic fuel interacted with the airflow in the combustion chamber.
From Forbes
He’s explaining the process by which data is stored: A piece of quartz glass is etched by a laser with infinitesimally small dots that make up a binary code.
From BusinessWeek
For similar reasons the manipulation of quartz glass has been omitted.
From Project Gutenberg
There were quartz glass ports in the sidewall.
From Project Gutenberg
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