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quartz glass

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noun

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Nearby words

quartile, quarto, quartz, quartz clock, quartz crystal, quartz glass, quartz lamp, quartz movement, quartz plate, quartz-iodine lamp, quartziferous

Origin of quartz glass

First recorded in 1900–05
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Examples from the Web for quartz glass

  • Out the quartz-glass ports he could see ahead, out the end of the cage through the monstrous doorway to the desert beyond.

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  • Out the quartz-glass windows, the great door seemed to descend.

    Space Tug|Murray Leinster

British Dictionary definitions for quartz glass

quartz glass

noun

a colourless glass composed of almost pure silica, resistant to very high temperatures and transparent to near-ultraviolet radiationAlso called: silica glass, nitreous silica Sometimes shortened to: quartz
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