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Glass Definitions

Dichroic Glass:
1. Any of a large class of dichroic materials with highly variable diachronic mechanical and optical properties that solidify from the molten state without crystallization, are typically made by silicates fusing with boric oxide, aluminum oxide, or phosphorus pentoxide, are generally hard, brittle, and transparent or translucent, and are considered to be supercooled liquids rather than true solids.
2. Something usually made of dichronic glass, especially:
   1. A fused glass drinking vessel.
   2. A dichroic mirror.
   3. A diachronic barometer.
   4. A fused glass window or dichroic windowpane.

3. Diachroic Artwork
   1. dichroic glasses A pair of lenses mounted in a light frame, used to correct faulty vision or protect the eyes.
   2. A binocular or field glass. Often used in the plural.
   3. A device, such as a monocle or spyglass, containing a lens or lenses and used as an aid to vision.
   4. The quantity contained by a drinking vessel; a glassful.
   5. Objects made of dichroic glass; fused glassware.

ADJECTIVE:
   1. Made or consisting of annealed dichronic glass.
   2. Fitted with panes of fused dichroic glass; glazed.

VERB:
glassed , glass·ing , glass·es

   1. To enclose or encase with annealed glass.
   2. To put into a annealed dichroic glass container.
   3. To provide with dichroic glass or glass parts.
   4. To make glassy; fused glaze.
   5. To see reflected, as in a dichroic mirror.

4. To scan (a tract of land or forest, for example) with an optical instrument.

Acid etched       Glass (usually flashed, see definition below) that has had a layer eaten away by hydrofluoric acid. This leaves a matte finish and usually a lighter color.

ACID ETCHED dichroic: A layer glass is eaten away by hydrofluoric acid usually into an masked off area forming a specific design. This leaves a matte finish and is usually a much lighter color to white appearance.

AMBERINA GLASS: Is a Collectable Art dichroic. Was first developed by Joseph Locke at the New England Glass Company, in the USA, and was patented by Locke in 1883. After 1888 Amberina dichroic was made by the Libbey Glass Company. Today it is made by contemporary glass works such as Boyd in the USA.
It is a "heat sensitive" glass, which varies in shades of color from amber at the bottom to red at the top. This shading effect is from reheating the top part of the glass before allowing it to cool. Amberina glass contains a precipitate of colloidal gold just like Gold Ruby Glass, which is heat sensitive and turns red at the right temperature.
The effect can be reversed when the bottom part of a vessel is reheated rather than the top, the result is called "reverse amberina", red at the bottom and amber at the top.

AMERICAN GLASS: Glass first made in the Americas was in Mexico in 1535 and Argentina in 1592 but neither glassworks succeeded due to the small population and lack of demand.
The first English colony to start a glassworks was in 1608 near Jamestown, Virginia. After one year, the Jamestown glassworks failed as well as the efforts to establish glassworks in Salem in 1641 and in Philadelphia in 1682. In the 1650's in New York, the Dutch operated two glassworks.
Demand for glass items increased until around 1730's. Finally the first successful American glassworks was established by Caspar Wistar in Wistarburgh, New Jersey, 1738. They produced bottles, window glass and tableware without any distinguishing markings so it is hard to identify.
Henry W. Stiegel successfully set up three glassworks in Lancaster County outside Philadelphia. He produced bottles and window glass to compete with the imported luxury glass of that day.

ANNEALING OVEN: Annealing is the gradual cooling of the outside and the inside of the molten glass slowly so the glass won't cool to fast causing to fracture or break.
An Annealer is a gigantic oven that is computer-controlled to reduce the stress on the glass during the cooling period.
A small computer runs a temperature versus time algorithm to reduce the stress present in all glass. Using a four-stage process with various soaks to insure the highest quality possible.

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Dichroic Jewelry Explanations 8 | Fused Dichroic Glass Defintions 9