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121Leaded glass — may mean:*Lead glass, potassium silicate glass which has been impregnated with a small amount of lead oxide in its fabrication. Apart from optical effects, glass may have lead added as an impediment to the transmission of radiation. *Glass panels …
122The Glass Delusion — An unusual psychiatric disorder swept through Europe during the late Medieval period. Many people came to believe they were made of glass and therefore likely to shatter into pieces. Historians call this the Glass Delusion.A typical sufferer… …
123Color glass condensate — The color glass condensate is an extreme type of matter theorized to exist in atomic nuclei travelling near the speed of light. According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, a high energy nucleus appears length contracted, or compressed, along… …
124Plate glass — Plate Plate, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. ?. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in… …
125Cranberry glass — Vintage cranberry glass bowl Cranberry glass (or Gold Ruby glass as it is known in Europe, or Rubino Oro as it is known by glass workers) is a red glass made by adding gold(III) chloride to molten glass. Tin, in the form of stannous chloride, is… …
126Tiffany glass — Girl with Cherry Blossoms illustrates many types of glass employed by Tiffany including elaborate polychrome painting of the face, drapery glass for the dress, opalescent glass for the blossoms, streaky glass in the border, fracture streamer… …
127Islamic glass — Egyptian mosque lamp, 1360. The influence of the Islamic world to the history of glass is reflected by its distribution around the world, from Europe to China, and from Russia to East Africa. Islamic glass developed a unique expression that was… …
128Uranium glass — is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix prior to melting. The proportion usually varies from trace levels to about 2% by weight uranium, although some 19th century pieces were made with up to 25%… …
