Definition of Optical flint

1. Noun. Optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index.

Exact synonyms: Flint Glass
Generic synonyms: Optical Glass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Optical Flint

optical character recognition
optical condenser
optical crown
optical density
optical device
optical diffraction
optical disc
optical discs
optical disk
optical double
optical drive
optical fiber
optical fibers
optical fibre
optical flat
optical flint (current term)
optical fusion
optical illusion
optical illusions
optical image
optical index
optical instrument
optical iridectomy
optical isomer
optical isomerism
optical isomers
optical keratoplasty
optical lens
optical maser

Literary usage of Optical flint

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The of the tube, and It requires much dexterity to tusks a tubs at ones ful maker of optical flint glass was IL ..."

2. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"It was in vain that the French Academy of Sciences offered prizes for perfect disks of optical flint glass. Some of the best chemists and most enterprising ..."

3. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1850)
"optical flint GLASS. THE following recipes hy Mr. Cooper, glass manufacturer ... for making good optical flint Glass, have heen communicated to the Scottish ..."

4. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1842)
"They relate principally to the two descriptions of glass known by the names of plate glass, and optical flint glass. Those which at present concern plate ..."

5. Optical Projection: A Treatise on the Use of the Lantern in Exhibition and by Lewis Wright (1895)
"This need not make them so very much more expensive; for while ' optical' flint must be homogeneous, and is usually wanted dense, for a condenser, ..."

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