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lead glass

American  
[led] / lɛd /

noun

  1. glass containing lead oxide.


lead glass British  
/ lɛd /

noun

  1. glass that contains lead oxide as a flux

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of lead glass

First recorded in 1855–60

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They maintained all the historic trim and all of the hand-carved millwork, which was done in Franklin, as well as the lead glass windows.

From Washington Times Sep. 17, 2019

The technician stands a few meters away behind a lead-lined door with a lead glass window, reducing her occupational exposure.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Labor, he says, has become 9% more expensive in the past year, and "aluminum, copper, lead, glass and plastics are all up."

From Time Magazine Archive

This remark is more important in the case of soda than of lead glass.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard

I find, however, that when every precaution has been taken, apparatus made of soda glass will bear variations of temperature less well than that made of lead glass.

From The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by Shenstone, W. A.

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