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quartz glass

quartz glass

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of quartz glass1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

For similar reasons the manipulation of quartz glass has been omitted.

Out the quartz-glass ports he could see ahead, out the end of the cage through the monstrous doorway to the desert beyond.

Out the quartz-glass windows, the great door seemed to descend.

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