quartz glass

noun

lechatelierite.

Origin of quartz glass

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby quartz glass

quartile, quarto, quartz, quartz clock, quartz crystal, quartz glass, quartz lamp, quartz movement, quartz plate, quartz-iodine lamp, quartziferous

Example sentences from the Web for quartz glass

  • Out the quartz-glass ports he could see ahead, out the end of the cage through the monstrous doorway to the desert beyond.

    Space Tug |Murray Leinster

  • Out the quartz-glass windows, the great door seemed to descend.

    Space Tug |Murray Leinster

British Dictionary definitions for quartz glass

quartz glass

noun

a colourless glass composed of almost pure silica, resistant to very high temperatures and transparent to near-ultraviolet radiation Also called: silica glass, nitreous silica Sometimes shortened to: quartz