Definitions for flint-glass

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Flint-Glass is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 450 anagrams from letters in flint-glass (-afgillnsst).

Definitions for flint-glass

noun

  1. an optical glass of high dispersion and a relatively high index of refraction, composed of alkalis, lead oxide, and silica, with or without other bases, sometimes used as the diverging lens component of an achromatic lens.

Origin of flint-glass

First recorded in 1665-75

Examples for flint-glass

The flux consists of flint glass and flints in equal weights.

In consequence of this operation it cannot be preserved in tubes of flint glass.

The crystal glass of England is flint glass of superior quality; that of Bohemia is noticed under Table glass.

The flint glass of these works, started in 1824, has never been excelled.

flint glass is better, and rock crystal is better than flint glass.

This is the cause of the surface of flint glass, under certain circumstances, becoming opaque and iridescent.

In this the jar was made of flint glass, cylindrical in form, Page 110 six inches in diameter and eight inches deep.

A block of flint glass three inches thick has been pierced with the 28-inch spark.

A great variety of flint glass, both cut and plain, very heavy.

Thus, the spectrum formed by flint glass is longer than that formed by crown glass, for the same deviation.

Word Value for flint-glass
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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