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glass tank

American  

noun

  1. a reverberatory furnace in which glass is melted directly under the flames.


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"It’s a slow process - you have to go through those stages before having it in a glass tank, like the Mary Rose of Sanday."

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024

Around the turn of the next century, an Australian actress named Annette Kellerman toured the U.S., donning a one-piece bathing suit instead of traditional pantaloons and performing inside a glass tank.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2022

Cecily Strong finished what felt like a valedictory performance as Jeanine Pirro by dunking herself in a glass tank that said “Boxed Wine.”

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Is it his living-room art installation featuring a dead moose submerged in a giant glass tank of moose pee?

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2016

Another, larger laboratory with a second door leading out and, in the middle, a glass tank shaped like a barrel, filled with green liquid.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

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