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Definition of Opal glass
1. Noun. A milky white translucent or opaque glass.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opal Glass
Literary usage of Opal glass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jena Glass: And Its Scientific and Industrial Applications by Heinrich Hovestadt (1902)
"For some time past, the Jena works have been producing an opal glass which comes
much nearer to this ideal than those hitherto obtainable. ..."
2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"At the same time, light from the object to be examined falls through the left-hand
half of the tube B, passing generally also- through a plate of opal glass ..."
3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"... ruby, block, and flint-glass, cut •MM! gilt; opal glass, painted — Pet Fawn —
in enamel . ... li ¡»its with cover for taper, opal glass, ornamented »itb ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"It was at this time that it occurred to the •writer that opal glass, ... From this
moment began a long series of experiments in the making of opal glass, ..."
5. Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers: A Practical Text-book by Bertram Blount, Arthur George Bloxam (1905)
"Coloured and opal glass.—Coloured glass is produced by the addition of the oxides
of heavy metals to ordinary glass mixtures, each metal communicating a ..."
6. The photographic studios of Europe by Henry Baden Pritchard (1882)
"In cloudy weather the light is not interfered with in the least; but in bright
sunshine a screen of opal glass is employed. The assistant slips the negative ..."
7. The British Journal of Photographyby Liverpool Photographic Society by Liverpool Photographic Society (1874)
"The majority of opal pictures produced by collodion are, we believe, those produced
by the very simple method of coating an opal glass with ordinary ..."
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