Glass floats were used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat. Large groups of fishnets...
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Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal of a low melting point, typically tin, although lead was used for...
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Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers...
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manufactures automotive safety glass, float glass, architectural processed glass, and glass products. It also provides consumer glass offerings in the form of...
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the base of the massive stone pillars. The Labrador takes the lemur's glass float to the secretarybird, to play fetch. The secretarybird kicks it off the...
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glass against water, which is required especially for storage of beverages and food. Most flat glass is soda–lime glass, produced by the float glass process...
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Look up float in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Float may refer to: Lowboy (trailer), called a float in Eastern Canada usage Float (parade) Float (sculpture)...
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plates. 1678: "Crown glass" first produced in London. This process dominated until the 19th century. 1843: An early form of "float glass" invented by Henry...
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An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as an ice cream spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage made by adding ice cream to...
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float or slack is the amount of time that a task in a project network can be delayed without causing a delay to:: 183 subsequent tasks ("free float")...
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application, production method (float process for windows, blowing and pressing for containers), and chemical composition. Flat glass has a higher magnesium oxide...
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pointed splinters similar to float glass. For this reason, it is not considered a safety glass and must be laminated if safety glass is required. However, chemically...
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using mercury to provide a valving action at C, it is possible to use a glass float valve. A. Roth (2 December 2012). Vacuum Technology. Elsevier Science...
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Barometer (redirect from Weather glass)
floating on top of the mercury there is a small glass float. A fine silken thread is attached to the float which passes up over a wheel and then back down...
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predominantly from bottles of beer, juices and soft drinks and fishing floats. The clear or white glass also comes from clear plates and glasses, windshields, windows...
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Saint-Gobain (redirect from Saint-Gobain Glass India)
it started its own glass manufacturing unit at Sriperumbudur. In June 2011, Saint Gobain Glass India acquired Sezal Glass float-line business, based...
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Nickel sulfide inclusion (category Glass engineering and science)
NiS, occurs during the process of manufacturing float glass (normal window glass). In a batch of glass, contaminants that contain nickel might be present...
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gillnets. These are suspended in the sea by flotation buoys, such as glass floats, along one edge. In this way they can form a vertical wall hundreds of...
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sized float can be used to sense the interface level between two liquids of different density. Float (liquid level) Fuel gauge Level sensor Sight glass Bela...
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Depression glass. In the 1950s, Pilkington Bros., England, developed the float glass process, producing high-quality distortion-free flat sheets of glass by floating...
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the "Kite Capital of the World". Lincoln City also boasts year round glass float drops across its seven miles of beach thanks to the Finders Keepers program...
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Hadeland Glassverk (redirect from Hadeland Glass)
2012, King Harald marked the 250th anniversary of Hadeland Glassverk. Glass float Jevnaker Glassverk Royal House of Norway press release http://www.kongehuset...
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Dreamcatcher Glass float Hoko (doll) Kitchen witch Mezuzah Namkha Nazar (amulet) Talisman Yard globe Ezell, Margaret J. M. (July 2004). "Looking Glass Histories"...
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Pilkington (redirect from Pilkington Glass)
Bickerstaff invented the float glass process, a revolutionary method of high-quality flat glass production by floating molten glass over a bath of molten...
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Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness...
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a significant problem in manufacturing of thin film solar cells. The float glass process can be used to provide low-distortion sheets with very flat and...
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made from float glass. Most float glass is soda–lime glass, but relatively minor quantities of specialty borosilicate and flat panel display glass are also...
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Fuyao Group (redirect from Fuyao Glass America)
Subaru, Tesla and Volkswagen. The company also produces float glass and construction glass. First established as a joint venture company, it was listed...
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(1811–1918) English Gothic stained glass windows French Gothic stained glass windows Float glass Glass beadmaking List of stained glass windows in the Janskerk,...
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AGC Inc. (redirect from Asahi Glass Company)
Automotive glass manufacturing company in India and manufactures a wide spectrum of glass products including automotive safety glass, float glass, and architectural...
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