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Definition of Optical flint
1. Noun. Optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optical Flint
Literary usage of Optical flint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The of the tube, and It requires much dexterity to tusks a tubs at ones ful maker
of optical flint glass was IL ..."
2. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"It was in vain that the French Academy of Sciences offered prizes for perfect
disks of optical flint glass. Some of the best chemists and most enterprising ..."
3. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1850)
"optical flint GLASS. THE following recipes hy Mr. Cooper, glass manufacturer ...
for making good optical flint Glass, have heen communicated to the Scottish ..."
4. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1842)
"They relate principally to the two descriptions of glass known by the names of
plate glass, and optical flint glass. Those which at present concern plate ..."
5. Optical Projection: A Treatise on the Use of the Lantern in Exhibition and by Lewis Wright (1895)
"This need not make them so very much more expensive; for while ' optical' flint
must be homogeneous, and is usually wanted dense, for a condenser, ..."