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glass

[glas] / glæs /
NOUN
object that reflects an image
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While light slows by about 1.5 times in glass and roughly 3.5 times in silicon or gallium arsenide, it slows by about 4.5 times in MoSe2.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

She downs her glass of orange wine, leans forward and confesses to something truly shocking.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Arizona-based Awake Window & Door is one client that buys long, angled pieces of aluminum from a Hydro plant in Oregon to make frames for large windows and glass walls used in luxury homes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Natural gas is used by glass manufacturers to run their furnaces, which melt sand, soda ash, limestone and recycled glass into molten glass blobs which are then shaped into bottles.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

There were rocks on desks among the petrified yellow jackets, and glass on the floor right where you wanted to step.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck