lime glass
noun
inexpensive glass containing a large proportion of lime, used for making cheap glasses, windowpanes, etc.
Origin of lime glass
1First recorded in 1905–10
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How to use lime glass in a sentence
With lime (calcium oxide) and soda (which yields sodium oxide) we get soda-lime glass (common window glass).
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public | Frank Bertram WadeVenetian glass is a soda-lime glass; Bohemian glass is a potash-lime glass.
Finely divided vegetable charcoal added to a soda-lime glass gives a yellow colour.
Nickel with a potash-lead glass gives a violet colour, and a brown colour with a soda-lime glass.
This colourless potash-lime glass has always been known as Bohemian glass.
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