glassmaking

[glas-mey-king, glahs-]

noun

1. the art of making glass or glassware.

Other Word Forms

• glassmaker noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of glassmaking¹

First recorded in 1810–20; glass + making

Example Sentences

About 500 of the most energy-intensive firms, including the steel industry, chemicals and glassmaking, will also have their network charges cut.

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The quenching that occurred inside the skull of a single human victim of Vesuvius may be unique and have required an extraordinarily rare set of conditions, but the process itself is used routinely in glassmaking, when a sheet of glass is heated to around 620 degrees Celsius in a tempering oven, then quickly cooled with high-pressure blasts of air.

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The Puget Sound region’s glassmaking artisans continue to dominate in regional representation on the fourth season of Netflix’s “Blown Away,” streaming March 8.

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She made marble sculptures in Italy and studied stained glassmaking in France.

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This heat, often created using natural gas — plus other emissions from the chemical reactions that occur in glassmaking — creates an estimated 86 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

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