QUARTZ GLASS Definition & Meaning

quartz glass

noun

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quartz glass

noun

a colourless glass composed of almost pure silica, resistant to very high temperatures and transparent to near-ultraviolet radiation Also calledsilica glassnitreous silica Sometimes shortened toquartz

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Origin of quartz glass¹

First recorded in 1900–05

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Microsoft is using regular quartz glass, and the company has boiled, baked, and scratched it to test resilience.

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Another test used an engine with a small quartz glass window so engineers could see how the synthetic fuel interacted with the airflow in the combustion chamber.

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He’s explaining the process by which data is stored: A piece of quartz glass is etched by a laser with infinitesimally small dots that make up a binary code.

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For similar reasons the manipulation of quartz glass has been omitted.

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There were quartz glass ports in the sidewall.

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