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glasslike

  • a word derived from glass.
    glass
    noun
    a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the ordinary variety used for windows and bottles.

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Outside her window, farmland rolls into rocky coastline, hemming a glasslike bay striped with turquoise and populated by showboating dolphins.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025

The technology exists to use nuclear waste as fuel, and to turn waste into a glasslike substance similar to obsidian that can then be stored deep in the earth.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

The result was a hard, smooth, glasslike substance without the problematic properties of ice.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 21, 2023

When the lakes freeze and then that ice breaks up, wind can sometimes pile large glasslike shards onto one another in bizarre and magnificent-looking formations.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2023

The woman was wearing a nose ring, a tiny glasslike thing that glittered as she moved her head this way and that.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie