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:

    “Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
    The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s,eye, tongue, sword,
    Th’ expectancy and rose of the fair state,
    The glass of fashion and the mold of form,
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    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)