Flint glass is optical glass that has relatively high refractive index and low Abbe number (high dispersion). Flint glasses are arbitrarily defined as...
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Corning Inc. (redirect from Brooklyn Flint Glass Works)
later moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and operated as the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works. The company moved again to its ultimate home and eponym, the city...
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lead(II) oxide to compensate for glass's lack of resistance to humidity, thus inventing lead crystal (the first flint glass, named after the high-purity English...
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crystal, historically also known as flint glass due to the original silica source, contains a minimum of 24% PbO. Lead glass is often desirable for a variety...
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fluorite and lanthanum oxide. The crown/flint distinction is so important to optical glass technology that many glass names, notably Schott glasses, incorporate...
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Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting for colouration. The proportion usually...
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include blue corn and purple corn. Glass Gem corn became internet famous in 2012 when photos of this brightly colored flint corn went viral. Popcorn (Zea mays...
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made out of flint glass such as F2, which has relatively high dispersion, and the other is a positive (convex) element made of crown glass such as BK7...
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decorative windows made of small sections of glass supported in lead cames Flint glass, an optical glass that has relatively high refractive index and...
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American Flint. Toledo, OH: American Flint Glass Workers Union. January 1916. "Dunkirk (page 28)". American Flint. Toledo, OH: American Flint Glass Workers...
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200 kg/m3) for dense flint glass. Glass is stronger than most metals, with a theoretical tensile strength for pure, flawless glass estimated at 14 to 35...
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Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents. Borosilicate glasses are known for having...
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glass separately since glass tends to retain its color after recycling. The most common colours used for consumer containers are clear (flint) glass,...
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Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk...
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toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering...
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00354 Borosilicate glass BK7 1.5046 0.00420 Hard crown glass K5 1.5220 0.00459 Barium crown glass BaK4 1.5690 0.00531 Barium flint glass BaF10 1.6700 0.00743...
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Fluorite (redirect from Fluorite glass)
dispersion glass as one or more elements exhibit less chromatic aberration than those utilizing conventional, less expensive crown glass and flint glass elements...
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one positive crown glass element at the front, one negative flint glass element at the center and a negative concave flint glass element cemented with...
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Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass. Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with...
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Stourbridge (section Glass Making in Stourbridge)
Matsumura, Takao (1984). "Flint glass makers in the local community". The Labour Aristocracy Revisited: The Victorian Flint Glass Makers, 1850-80. Manchester...
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Of Refraction Of Vegetable Oil, The Physics Factbook. "High temperature glass melt property database for process modeling"; Eds.: Thomas P. Seward III...
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Soda–lime glass, also called soda–lime–silica glass, is the most prevalent type of glass, used for windowpanes and glass containers (bottles and jars)...
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Objective (optics) (redirect from Objective glass)
correction is an achromatic lens, which uses a combination of crown glass and flint glass to bring two colors into focus. Achromatic objectives are a typical...
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include toughened glass (also known as tempered glass), laminated glass, and wire mesh glass (also known as wired glass). Toughened glass was invented in...
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The Western Flint Glass Company was a glass house based near Denver, Colorado which was founded in 1899, and was in operation until late 1900, when its...
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Milk glass is an opaque or translucent, milk white or colored glass that can be blown or pressed into a wide variety of shapes. First made in Venice in...
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Glass-ceramics are polycrystalline materials produced through controlled crystallization of base glass, producing a fine uniform dispersion of crystals...
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manufactured a full line of flint glass products during its existence, and art glass (mostly iridescent) from 1892 onwards. The Union Glass Company was established...
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The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline...
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The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis that started in 2014 after the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, was contaminated with...
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