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Definition of Flint glass
1. Noun. Optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index.
Definition of Flint glass
1. Noun. A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware and in optical instruments. ¹
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Medical Definition of Flint glass
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Flint Glass
Literary usage of Flint glass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"glass there was not even one ; and even in flint-glass we were very inadequately
represented, although the English flint-glass that was shown was more ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The South Ferry flint glass Company, established in 1823 at Brooklyn, had the
reputation of making the finest flint glass made in the United States, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"flint glass is a compound entirely different from those above described, ...
flint glass is in no case used for architectural or structural purposes, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"27 It is probable that the flint-glass of that date was very different from the
... The term flint-glass is now understood to mean a glass composed of the ..."
5. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1832)
"These irregularities are much more frequent in flint glass than it crown; and by
far the greatest obstacle to be overcome in constructing a large refracting ..."
6. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen, Jane Lassell, Caroline Lassell (1872)
"depends essentially upon this dispersion, and it is therefore not a matter of
indifference whether a prism of flint glass, of crown glass, of water, ..."
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