glassy alloy

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noun

a metal alloy having a noncrystalline, glasslike structure.

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Paddling across the glassy flat surface feels like sliding through warm butter.
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The same is now true with Barack Obama but on steroids, with the added alloy of race inserted into the mix.
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The zirconium alloy will react with water to produce hydrogen and oxide, but it also produces heat that has to be removed.
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The figure of the old man clutching the violin and staring with glassy eyes into the dying fire would not away.
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I took heart, approached him, and raised the head-cloth, which had fallen over a part of his face; two glassy eyes stared at me.
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It shows a simple mind to acknowledge at court the smallest alloy of common blood, and not to set up for a nobleman.
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The canoe glided swiftly along, making the only ripples there were on the glassy surface of the bay.
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David, terrified, lifted the half-closed eyelid of the youth: his eye was immovable, dull and glassy.
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