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quartz glass

n. colorless glass made of almost pure silica [syn: quartz, vitreous silica, lechatelierite, crystal]

Usage examples of "quartz glass".

There he drank deeply from a cut-quartz glass filled with the fountain water.

Our supply of glass is running low, and we need quartz glass for the photocells.

Zebara glanced at the set of indicator lights above the thick quartz glass panel.

He buckled himself in and glanced out the quartz glass screen ahead of him.

Streamlined, egg-shaped, with quartz glass windows and duraluminum wings, with much of the available Ransdell-metal lining its diagonally down-thrust propulsion tubes, it stood glittering in the sunshine five hundred yards from the half-wrecked cylinder of the Ark.

This type of diving gear consisted of a huge steel egg, gyrostabilized, with a quartz glass window and mechanical arms and legs.