quartz glass

noun

1. lechatelierite.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of quartz glass¹

First recorded in 1900–05

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