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Crystal glasses are not made out of crystal. They're made of regular glass in which the calcium is replaced with lead oxide or zinc, causing them to sparkle more than the usual type of glass.
in a magnifying glass the glass is special type of glass. glasses lense are made of lint glass. magnifying glass is made of a thick glass. telescopes and magnifying glasses both use thicker glass than the usual. hope i helped you.
Eyeglasses are made with materials such as metal and glass. The glass is the most important part of the glasses as they form the lens which the glasses are used for.
Eye glasses do not contain actual minerals because glass lacks a crystal structure. Most glass is made from quartz.
Eyeglass lenses could be made of nearly any plastic or glass. For example, some glasses lens, such as my own, are made of a plastic called polycarbonate which is the material used to make bulletproof glass so my glasses are impact resistant. Other eyeglass lenses can be made from other plastics and glasses such as CR-39, Homopolyer and crown glass.
Technically, if they are made of plastic, then they aren't glasses. They might be fake glasses, for diguises etc... Often, real glasses do have a thin layer of plastic over the glass so that they don't crack, but plastic doesn't do anything as far as focusing a person's eyesight.
There are many products that are made out of glass. These include drinking glasses, jewelry, vases, laboratory equipment, ornaments, and more.
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The noun 'glass' is a common, concrete noun; a general word for a physical substance or a physical object; a word for any glass of any kind.The noun 'glass' may be a countable or uncountablenoun, depending on function:uncountable noun as a word for the substance that things are made from;countable noun as a word for a drinking vessel made from this substance (a glass of milk or two glasses of milk);uncountable noun as a word for the sheets of this substance (a pane of glass or two panes of glass);uncountable noun as a word for other objects made from this substance (a glass bead or glass beads, a glass bottle or glass bottles);plural uncountable noun, 'glasses' as a word for spectacles; a binary noun, a word for something made up of two parts that make a whole (one pair of glasses or two pairs of glasses).
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