Difference between revisions of "Window glass"
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Description
A transparent, flat, glass sheet used for glazing windows. Window glass has been made by several techniques. These include crown glass (17th century), cylinder glass (mass produced in the 1830s), float glass (1959) and insulated glass.
Synonyms and Related Terms
vitre (Fr.); vidraça (Port.)
| Refractive Index | 1.52 |
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Sources Checked for Data in Record
- G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 363
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996
- Thomas C. Jester (ed.), Twentieth-Century Building Materials, McGraw-Hill Companies, Washington DC, 1995
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window (Accessed Nov. 29, 2005)