quartz glass ExamplesWord Origin noun
Origin of quartz glass First recorded in 1900–05 Examples from the Web for quartz glass Historical Examples of quartz glass
Out the quartz-glass windows, the great door seemed to descend.
Murray Leinster
Out the quartz-glass ports he could see ahead, out the end of the cage through the monstrous doorway to the desert beyond.
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 radiationAlso called: silica glass, nitreous silica Sometimes shortened to: quartz