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A smooth, distortion free, window glass made by pouring molten glass onto a surface of molten tin. The process for making float glass was developed in 1959. By 1993, 90% of the world's glass was made by the float process. | A smooth, distortion free, window glass made by pouring molten glass onto a surface of molten tin. The process for making float glass was developed in 1959. By 1993, 90% of the world's glass was made by the float process. | ||
| − | See also [ | + | See also [[plate glass]]. |
== Synonyms and Related Terms == | == Synonyms and Related Terms == | ||
Revision as of 10:50, 15 January 2014
Description
A smooth, distortion free, window glass made by pouring molten glass onto a surface of molten tin. The process for making float glass was developed in 1959. By 1993, 90% of the world's glass was made by the float process.
See also Plate glass.
Synonyms and Related Terms
plate glass; float glass (Fr.); verre flotté (Fr.); vidro flotado (Port.)
Authority
- 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
- Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
- External source or communication Comment: G.Allen, L.Black,K.Hallam, "A Preliminary Investigation into the Effect of Solf-Adhesive Ultraviolet Absorbing Films on Window Glass" in ICOM preprints Lyon, 1999. p.757-763