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Answer for the clue "Component of glass ", 4 letters:
frit

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A frit is a ceramic composition that has been fused in a special fusing oven, quenched to form a glass, and granulated. Frits form an important part of the batches used in compounding enamels and ceramic glazes ; the purpose of this pre-fusion is to render ...

Usage examples of frit.

There are four furnaces the size of three oxcarts in length, a fritting furnace, a melting furnace for working the glass, an annealing furnace for cooling, and a furnace for spreading the glass sheets.

He called the Metro police and was referred to a Detective Frits, who noted the room number.

Crane, perched in a swiveling office chair across from Frits, wished he had worn a jacket.

Dizzy with nausea, he wondered if it was dying, and what Lieutenant Frits would have to say to him about this.

Then there was a shadowy frit of movement among the holes of the standing hardwood, and Sean laid his right hand on the pistol grip of the AKM rifle and raised it until the butt stock touched his cheek.