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liquid glass

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.

Born and raised on the island as the grandson of a master glassblower and the son of a mother who decorated works that emerged from the kilns, he returns to Murano to produce, for instance, his fishbowl-size Rotea pendant with aubergine vertical waves, which he makes by spinning the globes as the molten liquid glass decoration is applied.

“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.

Suddenly, instead of being a potential flaw in the system, the wobbling of the liquid glass became a tunable design feature.

From BBC

The mold must remain hot so the liquid glass, itself 2,000 degrees, doesn’t solidify before it has slid into every crevice of the mold, said Mr. Wolfe.

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