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Flint glass
Flint Flint, n. [AS. flint, akin to Sw. flinta, Dan. flint; cf. OHG. flins flint, G. flinte gun (cf. E. flintlock), perh. akin to Gr. ? brick. Cf. Plinth.] 1. (Min.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel. 2. A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks. 3. Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. ``A heart of flint.' --Spenser. Flint age. (Geol.) Same as Stone age, under Stone. Flint brick, a fire made principially of powdered silex. Flint glass. See in the Vocabulary. Flint implements (Arch[ae]ol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. Flint mill. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp. --Knight. Flint stone, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint. Flint wall, a kind of wall, common in England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. Liquor of flints, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]
Flint glass
Flint glass Flint" glass` (Chem.) A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass. Note: The concave or diverging half on an achromatic lens is usually made of flint glass.

Meaning of Flint glass from wikipedia

- Flint gl**** is optical gl**** that has relatively high refractive index and low Abbe number (high dispersion). Flint gl****es are arbitrarily defined as...
- later moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and operated as the Brooklyn Flint Gl**** Works. The company moved again to its ultimate home and eponym, the city...
- crystal, historically also known as flint gl**** due to the original silica source, contains a minimum of 24% PbO. Lead gl**** is often desirable for a variety...
- Uranium gl**** is gl**** which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a gl**** mix before melting for colouration. The proportion usually...
- fluorite and lanthanum oxide. The crown/flint distinction is so important to optical gl**** technology that many gl**** names, notably Schott gl****es, incorporate...
- made out of flint gl**** such as F2, which has relatively high dispersion, and the other is a positive (convex) element made of crown gl**** such as BK7...
- lead(II) oxide to compensate for gl****'s lack of resistance to humidity, thus inventing lead crystal (the first flint gl****, named after the high-purity English...
- manufactured a full line of flint gl**** products during its existence, and art gl**** (mostly iridescent) from 1892 onwards. The Union Gl**** Company was established...
- American Flint. Toledo, OH: American Flint Gl**** Workers Union. January 1916. "Dunkirk (page 28)". American Flint. Toledo, OH: American Flint Gl**** Workers...
- decorative windows made of small sections of gl**** supported in lead cames Flint gl****, an optical gl**** that has relatively high refractive index and...