This can be a letter-number code, as used in the Schott Glass catalogue, or a 6-digit glass code.

The best known is the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition, held each year, where design students from all over the world can participate by designing their own “ inspired ” martini cocktail glass.

Apart from historical collections in general museums, modern works of art in glass can be seen in a variety of museums, including the Chrysler Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, which houses the world's largest collection of glass art and history, with more than 45, 000 objects in its collection.

Glass Petri dishes can be reused by sterilization ( for example, in an autoclave or by dry heating in a hot air oven at 160 ° C for one hour ).

Glass vials typically have outer threaded glass openings onto which caps can be screwed on.

It was built at the same time as the Glass House and can be seen as its formal counterpart.

Besides the gemstone varieties that show a play of color, there are other kinds of common opal such as the milk opal, milky bluish to greenish ( which can sometimes be of gemstone quality ); resin opal, which is honey-yellow with a resinous luster ; wood opal, which is caused by the replacement of the organic material in wood with opal ; menilite, which is brown or grey ; hyalite, a colorless glass-clear opal sometimes called Muller's Glass ; geyserite, also called siliceous sinter, deposited around hot springs or geysers ; and diatomite or diatomaceous earth, the accumulations of diatom shells or tests.

Glass joints made with silicone sealant can withstand great pressure, making obsolete the original aquarium construction method of angle-iron and putty.

" Funk, jazz, and Brazilian music were inspirations, and the sounds of minimalist composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich can be found on 1999's Cobra and Phases Group .... Several critics have commented that the band's later work, like Instant 0 in the Universe ( 2003 ) and Margerine Eclipse ( 2004 ), sound similar to their guitar-driven earlier style.

Glass formed this way can be both colored and used for stained-glass windows, or uncolored as seen in small paned windows in 16th and 17th century houses.

Glass can be " double rolled ", which means it is passed through two cylinders at once ( similar to the clothes wringers on older washing machines ) to yield glass of a specified thickness ( typically approximately 1 / 8 ").

Glass, concrete, and terrazzo sinks are usually designed for their aesthetic appeal and can be obtained in a wide variety of unusual shapes and colors such as floral shapes.

Glass fibres can also occur naturally, as Pele's hair.

Glass laser ( or glaser ) mice have the same capability of a laser mouse but can also be used on top of mirror or transparent glass with few problems.

Glass with very low content of potassium can be used with bialkali photocathodes to lower the background radiation from the potassium-40 isotope.

Glass eyes are then usually added to the display, and in some cases, artificial teeth, jaws, tongue, or for some birds, artificial beaks and legs can be used.

Glass fiber or plastic optical fiber can be used to guide the light along a desired path.

" Murder Under Glass " reveals Columbo to be an accomplished cook, having learned a recipe for veal scaloppine from his Italian father ( though in " Murder by the Book " he claims he can cook only a certain type of omelet, which he cooks for the victim's wife ).

He is the first cousin once removed of composer Philip Glass, who has appeared on Ira's show and whose music can often be heard on the program.

Glass can be heard in all but four episodes.

Glass can also be sculpted while molten on the end of a punty rod with hand tools either as a solid mass or on a blowpipe as part of a blown object.

Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colors as shown in this sphere from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany

Glass optical cable can also display chatoyancy if properly cut, and has become a popular decorative material in a variety of vivid colors.

He is also mentioned in the song " Jeshurun ", on Priest's album Behind the Stained Glass.

One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

He began playing the cello, spending a summer in France studying music under the acclaimed Nadia Boulanger, who also taught Morris ' future collaborator Philip Glass.

Glass also finds application in optoelectronics e. g., for light-transmitting optical fibers.

The building influenced the creation of hundreds of modernist glass houses, most notably the Glass House by Philip Johnson, located near New York City and also now owned by the National Trust.

In the 1960s the work of the avant-garde minimalist composers La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley also achieved prominence in the New York art world.

( Philip Glass also makes use of atonality, though his style is generally described as minimalist, usually thought of as another 20th century development.

Modernist styles of music have also appealed to composers writing for the modern grand piano, including John Cage and Philip Glass.

In an effort to augment the Looking Glass mission, a 1973 initiative resulted in the establishment of the National Emergency Airborne Command Post ( NEACP ), also known as " knee cap ," resulting in the procurement of four Boeing E-4 aircraft derived from the Boeing 747.

Using purple as Mr. Glass ' color to David Dunn's green was also Jackson's idea.

The walrus is also mentioned in the songs " I Am the Walrus ", " Glass Onion " and " Come Together " by The Beatles.

Philip Glass returns as the film's composer, and Jon Kane as the Visual Designer ( having also worked on Naqoyqatsi with Reggio in 2002 ).

Glass blocks may also be used.

* The American Maid ( 1909 ), also known as The Glass Blowers.

The Pier also has an IMAX theater, and the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, many of which were salvaged from Chicago mansions.

* Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game ( 1943 ), also known as " Magister Ludi " ( Master of the Game )

* British — Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).

The modern American composer Phillip Glass also found the story fascinating, and composed an opera, The Photographer, with a libretto based in part on court transcripts from the case.

The ka-tet also captures the pink-colored Wizard's Glass, a mystical, malevolent orb or crystal ball from the town witch, Rhea of the Cöos.

Glass is also brittle ; it does not flex much before breaking.

The American composer Philip Glass has also written a symphonic cantata named Itaipu, in honour of the structure.

Glass and plastic cuvettes are also common, although glass and most plastics absorb in the UV, which limits their usefulness to visible wavelengths.

Kristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, or Reichskristallnacht,, and, was a pogrom or series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9 – 10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary and civilians.