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liquid glass

British  

noun

  1. another name for water glass

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The viscosity of the liquid glass changes considerably when it is cooled to the glass transition temperature.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

“Pour! Pour! That’s right,” he yells to a man ladling strips of liquid glass with a huge metal spoon onto a small rolling table.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2018

At about 1150 degrees C, the liquid glass oozes into the mold, filling the cells of the honeycomb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wide as the widest street in Ember, churning and dipping and swirling, the river roared past, its turbulent surface like black, liquid glass scattered with flecks of light.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

The running of liquid glass into moulds, so common nowadays, does not seem to have been practised by the Phoenicians, perhaps because their furnaces were not sufficiently hot to produce complete liquefaction.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George

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