flint glass
noun
: heavy brilliant glass that contains lead oxide, has a relatively high refractive index, and is used in lenses and prisms
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Chester switched from an all-white design to clear flint glass to showcase the wine’s crimson hue.
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Essence, 18 Nov. 2025
But after just seven days of light exposure, wine stored in flint glass bottles lost between 10 and 30 percent of its terpenes and between 30 and 70 percent of its norisoprenoids compared to wine stored in colored bottles.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2022
They are called flint glasses and are my favorites.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2018
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Essence, 18 Nov. 2025
But after just seven days of light exposure, wine stored in flint glass bottles lost between 10 and 30 percent of its terpenes and between 30 and 70 percent of its norisoprenoids compared to wine stored in colored bottles.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2022
They are called flint glasses and are my favorites.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2018
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“Flint glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flint%20glass. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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