Crown glass

Definition of Crown glass

	See under Glass.
	a variety of glass, used for making the finest plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass; - so called from a crownlike shape given it in the process of blowing.

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