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Definition of optical glass
: flint or crown glass of well-defined characteristics used especially for making lenses
Examples of optical glass in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web The lens ball is made from optical glass and goes through multiple quality checks to ensure your pictures remain flawless.
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Popular Science, "Prisms, crystal balls, and fractal filters for photographers," 23 Oct. 2019 By the 1960s, the company was known less for military-grade optical glass than for its aspirational cool, thanks to such models as the Balorama, made famous by Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry character.
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Bloomberg, Fortune, "These $500 Ray-Ban Aviators Are Plated in 24K Gold," 16 June 2018 New types of optical glass developed for their microscopes also led the company to branch out into telescopes, projectors, binoculars, and photographic lenses.
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Allain Daigle, The Atlantic, "How the 50-mm Lens Became ‘Normal’," 13 May 2018 The site includes a collection of structures set among gardens — an art gallery, a stage made of optical glass, a simple tea house, several historic gates.
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Mary Louise Schumacher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "With Kusama Museum and art-filled islands, Japan is a paradise for art nerds," 27 Apr. 2018
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The first known use of optical glass was in 1797
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