borosilicate
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- noun
- /ˌbɔːrəˈsɪlɪkeɪt/
- Specialized
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borosilicato
- Wheaton uses soda lime and borosilicate glass to make its threaded glass products.
- borosilicate glass
Examples
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It will recognize that this is a borosilicate glass, meaning that it's a very low expansion glass.
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Samples of SML were obtained using the clear borosilicate glass plate technique with a 3600-cm² effective surface area and 5-mm thickness (Harvey and Burzell 1972).
Academic text (2018) -
It's made of borosilicate glass and we fill it with gas.
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So I could build this out of a borosilicate glass, a glass bottle.
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They also retrieved the plutonium that was after operations and they take the in a very strong form of glass, borosilicate glass.
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During SML collection, the borosilicate glass plate and Teflon wiper were rinsed three times with UPW before and after sample collection.
Academic text (2018) -
"I've got four different liquids that we're going to seal up in borosilicate glass—most people call it Pyrex.
Fiction book (1995) -
The former is used in food and cosmetic applications, such as liquor decanters and perfume bottles. Chemically resistant borosilicate glass is more suitable for pharmaceutical containers.
Academic text (1995) -
Flowmeters have been designed with single or multiple borosilicate-glass metering tubes and provide full-scale accuracy from ±10 percent to ±1 percent.
Academic text (1996) -
The laboratory equipment is made of borosilicate glass to withstand high temperatures.
How Heat Resistant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Borosilicate combines boro- from boron and silicate from silica ('sand'). Think of adding a little boron to sand to make very strong glass, which is why borosilicate resists heat and chemicals.