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glass thread

NOUN
spun glass
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Well, so did boats built of glass thread and resin.

From Time Magazine Archive

While it is turning, tap the tuning fork on the prong which has not the glass thread fastened to it.

From Common Science by Ritchie, John W. (John Woodside)

The upper end of the glass thread was attached, as in Coulomb's original electrometer, to an index, which had its appropriate graduated circle, upon which the degree of torsion was ultimately to be read off.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael

It took ten million feet of glass thread, and Eulaly will look real sweet in it.

From Samantha at the World's Fair by Grimm, Baron C. de

This fiber, placed under a microscope, looks like a glass thread.

From Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care by McGlauflin, Idabelle




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