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float glass

[′flōt ‚glas]
(materials)
Flat glass with a nearly true optical surface produced by floating a continuous sheet of molten glass on a bed of molten tin until the glass cools and hardens.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

float glass

Sheets of glass made by floating molten glass on a surface of molten metal, which produces a polished surface. See also: Glass
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float glass

1. A glass plate, formed by pouring molten glass continuously from an oven onto a shallow bath of molten tin on which it floats, thus spreading out and producing level parallel surfaces on both sides of the glass. The surfaces of the glass make no contact with rollers or other surfaces until the molten glass has solidified.
2.See plate glass.
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