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    Lead glass, commonly called crystal, is a variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass. Lead glass contains typically...
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  • Leaded glass may refer to: Lead glass, potassium silicate glass which has been impregnated with a small amount of lead oxide in its fabrication Lead came...
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    known glass objects were beads, perhaps created accidentally during metalworking or the production of faience, which is a form of pottery using lead glazes...
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    The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from...
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    domestic lead light and objets d'art created from foil glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany. As a material stained glass is glass...
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    Stained and Leaded Glass (PDF) (Report). United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 30 October 2016. Waldron, H. A. (1985). "Lead and lead poisoning...
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    from flooded lead-acid batteries in that the electrolyte is held in the glass mats, as opposed to freely flooding the plates. Very thin glass fibers are...
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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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    stress Borosilicate glass Fire glass Superglass Low-iron glass Stained glass Lead glass Pressed glass Superfest (a chemically hardened glass also known as CV-Glas...
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    implosion that can hurl glass at great velocity. The face is typically made of thick lead glass or special barium-strontium glass to be shatter-resistant...
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    produce a potash lead glass that was the precursor to English lead crystal. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flint glass. Crown glass (optics) Chromatic...
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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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    Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal of a low melting point, typically tin, although lead was used for...
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    made of lead glass, which has a higher index of refraction and is heavier than ordinary glass, but health concerns regarding the ingestion of lead resulted...
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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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    PbO are mostly in lead-based industrial glass and industrial ceramics, including computer components. It is an amphoteric oxide. Lead oxide exists in two...
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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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    Fused quartz (redirect from Quartz glass)
    differs from all other commercial glasses, such as soda-lime glass, lead glass, or borosilicate glass, in which other ingredients are added which change the...
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    A faceted glass or granyonyi stakan (Russian: гранёный стакан, literally faceted glass) (Ukrainian: hranchak гранчак, derived from грань, meaning facet)...
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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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    become more frequent in recent years, is lead glass filling. Filling the fractures inside the ruby with lead glass (or a similar material) dramatically improves...
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    Glass-to-metal seals are a type of mechanical seal which joins glass and metal surfaces. They are very important elements in the construction of vacuum...
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  • plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth. The plastic...
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  • for "crown" (Krone) and the number 9 refers to the lead oxide content of the glass (9%). K9 glass has high optical clarity, and is used in many contexts...
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    Lead shielding refers to the use of lead as a form of radiation protection to shield people or objects from radiation so as to reduce the effective dose...
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    import/export and glass making trades. He is primarily known for his work in developing clear lead crystal glass (also known as flint glass) in England. Little...
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    Traditional hand-cutting continues, but gives a much more expensive product. Lead glass has long been misleadingly called "crystal" by the industry, evoking the...
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    material. Only glass products containing at least 24% lead oxide may be referred to as "lead crystal". Products with less lead oxide, or glass products with...
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    glass. Lead crystal with added nickel acquires purplish color. Nickel together with a small amount of cobalt was used for decolorizing of lead glass....
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    Glass Animals are an English indie rock band formed in Oxford in 2010. The band's line-up consists of Dave Bayley (vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums, songwriting)...
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