Our new large-package ring twister for glass fiber yarns is performing well in our customers' mills.

The windshield glass is shatterproof and Plexiglas is used in the cabin.

Note: If 1/2-inch panel board is used inside and out, or 5/8-inch one side and 3/8-inch the other, and 1/8-inch glass is used, stock lumber in Af, Af, and Af can be used in making the glass panels.

As everybody is curious to see the battery of glass tubes I have invented, I have had quite a small one made here of four glass tubes ( in Copenhagen I used 30 ) and intend to carry it with me ''.

Sheeting cast from this material reportedly weighs only one-third as much as glass, is impervious to all kinds of weather, and will not yellow.

It is not an entirely happy book, as Mrs. Fink soon becomes jealous of Alicia and, in retaliation, refuses to continue to scrape the algae off her glass.

The suburban branch is thereby credited with a sale which would have been made even if its glass doors had never opened.

Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

This glass is probably formed from Libyan Desert sands by comet or stony-meteorite impact.

but again, as one will have observed at any restaurant worth its salt, wine should be served in a large, tulip-shaped glass, which is never filled more than half full.

To quote Professor Saintsbury: `` The last glass of claret or Burgundy is as good as the first ; ;

but the first glass of Chateau d'Yquem or Montrachet is a great deal better than the last ''!!

He doesn't think that potting them from a deck chair on the south side of the house with a quart glass of beer for sustenance is entirely sporting.

At juice bars in Los Angeles' 35 `` health '' stores, a new sensation is a pink, high-protein cocktail, concocted of dried eggs, powdered milk and cherry-flavored No-Cal, which sells for 59-cents per 8-oz. glass.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

The gases are contained in a test-tube ( A ) standing over a large quantity of weak alkali ( B ), and the current is conveyed in wires insulated by U-shaped glass tubes ( CC ) passing through the liquid and round the mouth of the test-tube.

It is a great undulating surface covered with plaster fragments of colored glass discs combined with 330 rounds of polychrome pottery.

The design is complemented by joinery windows set with multicolored stained glass.

It is often stated that a unit of alcohol is supplied by a small glass of wine, half a pint of beer, or a single measure of spirits.

George did wonderful complicated pen-and-ink drawings like something out of a medieval miniature: hundreds of delicate details crammed into an eight-by-ten sheet and looking as if they had been done under a jeweler's glass.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

The upgrade is being carried out by Embraer and Elbit ; it includes a new avionics suite, a full glass cockpit with three MFDs, HOTAS configuration and a new multimode radar, the Italian Grifo F. The first F-5EM was handed over on September 21, 2005, and it is scheduled at a rate of two aircraft being delivered each month from that date onwards.

The captain raised his glass and sang out the battle cry that had inspired Cuba's victorious soldiers in the War of Independence.

It is basically a double-leaved door with large glass panels in each door leaf, and in which the doors can swing both out as well as in.

After recovering, he continued to blow glass until he dislocated his right shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident. No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work ; Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying " Once I stepped back, I liked the view " and pointing out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster.

If shots are taken out of sequence, as is often the case, he will be alert to make sure that that beer glass is in the appropriate state.

FGM is typically carried out by traditional practitioners, without anaesthesia, using unsterile cutting devices such as knives, razors, scissors, cut glass, sharpened rocks, and fingernails, and applying suturing material such as agave or acacia thorns.

It is also the most resistant against weathering ( alkali ions leaching out of the glass, while staining it ).

Objects made out of glass include not only traditional objects such as vessels ( bowls, vases, bottles, and other containers ), paperweights, marbles, beads, but an endless range of sculpture and installation art as well.

The drop of liquid at the bottom of the glass represents helium spontaneously escaping from the container over the side, to empty out of the container.

The jar in the demonstration is constructed out of a glass cup nested between two fairly snugly fitting metal cups.

The method of making mirrors out of plate glass was invented by 16th-century Venetian glassmakers on the island of Murano, who covered the back of the glass with mercury, obtaining near-perfect and undistorted reflection.

Neodymium and didymium glass are used in color-enhancing filters in indoor photography, particularly in filtering out the yellow hues from incandescent lighting.

These lamps contain neodymium in the glass to filter out yellow light, resulting in a whiter light which is more like sunlight.

I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, ' Try this.

All the glass on the south dial was blown out, but the hands and bells were not affected, and the Great Clock continued to keep time accurately.

When his lawyer pointed out an error in the wording of the act which seemed to limit its application to cases of the destruction of objects worth no more than five pounds, he was convicted instead of the destruction of the glass case in which the vase had sat.

Chips sold in markets were usually sold in tins or scooped out of storefront glass bins and delivered by horse and wagon.

Such bottles eventually went out of production in the early 1980s, although replicas have been produced since 1985, including a copy of Allman's slide used by another Allman Brothers member, Derek Trucks, which was made of Dunlop Pyrex, giving the same sound as the glass slide, without the danger of shattering.

* Thin mirrors: Instead of costly Pyrex mirror blanks with the standard 1: 6 thickness ratios ( 1 cm thick for every 6 cm in diameter ) so they won't flex and sag out of shape under their own weight, Dobson used mirrors made out of surplus glass ship porthole covers usually with 1: 16 thickness ratios.

If you drop glass jewelry on the floor, you probably won't be able to use it again.