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Fluorine :: Fluorine (n.) A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorles

Glassware :: Glassware (n.) Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass..

Leyden Phial :: Leyden phial () A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland..

Glazen :: Glazen (a.) Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed.

Bumper :: Bumper (n.) A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast..

Sunglass :: Sunglasses (pl. ) of Sunglas.

Table :: Table (n.) A circular plate of crown glass.

Crizzel :: Crizzel (n.) A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency..

Pitchstone :: Pitchstone (n.) An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch..

Perviousness :: Perviousness (n.) The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass..

Amorphism :: Amorphism (n.) A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc..

Bugle :: Bugle (n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black..

Kelp :: Kelp (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine..

Vitrify :: Vitrify (v. t.) To become glass; to be converted into glass.

Hyalescence :: Hyalescence (n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass..

Salsola :: Salsola (n.) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.

Geissler Tube :: Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it..

Blowtube :: Blowtube (n.) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of metal (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe..

Lantern :: Lantern (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light..

Connector :: Connector (n.) A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments.

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