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51GLASS — Earliest Times The earliest manufacture of glass does not antedate the late third millennium B.C.E., when the first glass beads were made in Mesopotamia and Egypt. The invention of glass vessel making dates to the mid second millennium B.C.E.,… …
52glass — n., v., & adj. n. 1 a (often attrib.) a hard, brittle, usu. transparent, translucent, or shiny substance, made by fusing sand with soda and lime and sometimes other ingredients (a glass jug) (cf. crown glass, flint glass, plate glass). b a… …
53Glass ceiling — global|date=January 2008The term glass ceiling refers to situations where the advancement of a qualified person within the hierarchy of an organization is stopped at a lower level because of some form of discrimination, most commonly sexism or… …
54Glass frog — For other uses, see GlassFrog (disambiguation). Glass Frog Hyalinobatrachium ruedai Scientific classification Kingdom …
55Glass knife — A glass knife is a knife with a blade composed of glass. The cutting edge of a glass knife is formed from a fracture line, and is extremely sharp.Glass knives were used in antiquity due to their natural sharpness and the ease with which they… …
56Glass harp — A glass harp being played in Rome, Italy. The rims of wine glasses filled with water are rubbed by the player s fingers to create the notes. For the band, see Glass Harp (band) or for the similar instrument, see Glass harmonica. A glass harp… …
57glass — /glas / (say glahs) noun 1. a hard, brittle, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates (the ordinary variety used for windows, bottles, and the like, containing silica,… …
58glass — an amorphous material with three dimensional primary atomic bonding. Glass can generally be described as an amorphous (non crystalline) and unstable material having properties dependent on thermal history. Molten hot liquid material is cooled… …
59Glass catfish — Taxobox name = Glass catfish regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Actinopterygii ordo = Siluriformes familia = Siluridae genus = Kryptopterus species = K. bicirrhis binomial = Kryptopterus bicirrhis binomial authority = Cuvier… …
60Glass knifefish — Taxobox name = Glass knifefishes fossil range = Upper Miocene Recent image caption = Eigenmannia lineata regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Actinopterygii ordo = Gymnotiformes subordo = Sternopygoidei superfamilia = Apteronotoidea… …
