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QUARTZ GLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quartz glass mean? 

QUARTZ GLASS (noun)
  The noun QUARTZ GLASS has 1 sense:

1. colorless glass made of almost pure silicaplay

  Familiarity information: QUARTZ GLASS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUARTZ GLASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Colorless glass made of almost pure silica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

crystal; lechatelierite; quartz; quartz glass; vitreous silica

Hypernyms ("quartz glass" is a kind of...):

natural glass (magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly)

Meronyms (substance of "quartz glass"):

silica; silicon dioxide; silicon oxide (a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite)


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