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liquid glass

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noun

  1. another name for water glass

"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

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The viscosity of the liquid glass changes considerably when it is cooled to the glass transition temperature.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024

“Pour! Pour! That’s right,” he yells to a man ladling strips of liquid glass with a huge metal spoon onto a small rolling table.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2018

At about 1150 degrees C, the liquid glass oozes into the mold, filling the cells of the honeycomb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wide as the widest street in Ember, churning and dipping and swirling, the river roared past, its turbulent surface like black, liquid glass scattered with flecks of light.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

Ten o'clock: the broken moon Hangs not yet a half hour high, Yellow as a shield of brass, In the dewy air of June, Poised between the vaulted sky And the ocean's liquid glass.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus

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