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Definition of Natural glass

1. Noun. Magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Natural Glass

Literary usage of Natural glass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1898)
"The purest natural glass in the world is perhaps fulgurite glass, which is supposed to hare been produced by the fusion of rock by lightning. ..."

2. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"occurrence—natural glass is an abundant constituent of ... Not only does devitrification of natural glass take place, but under proper conditions artifical ..."

3. Open-air Studies: An Introduction to Geology Out-of-doors by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1895)
"... with a few spherulites an inch across in places, and a number of more typical small ones (see fig. 12). ANALYSES OF ARTIFICIAL AND natural glass. ..."

4. Open-air Studies in Geology by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1902)
"of the natural glass from a lava-stream in Lipari thna consists of alternate layers of ... ANALYSES OF ARTIFICIAL AND natural glass. ..."

5. The Gem-cutter's Craft by Leopold Claremont (1906)
"natural glass resembles the gems. It is doubly refractive and dichroic; lustre vitreous; fracture imperfectly conchoidal. The peridot and other varieties of ..."

6. The American Amateur Photographer (1903)
"A ruby lamp (of natural glass) for photographic ... [By "natural glass" we presume our correspondent means "pot metal," and unless the ruby be "copper" ..."

7. Elements of Glass and Glass Making by Benjamin Franklin Biser, Julius Arnold Koch (1899)
"By natural glass is meant that produced entirely by natural causes without any assistance from man. These natural glasses are found principally in the ..."

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