Ground Glass

Ground glass is glass whose surface has been ground to produce a flat but rough (matte) finish.

Ground glass surfaces have many applications, ranging from mere ornamentation on windows and table glassware to scientific uses in optics and laboratory glassware.

Famous quotes containing the words ground and/or glass:

    “Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
    Dulling and stilling.

    But colourless. Colourless.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)