10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMBITTY»
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ambitty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Journal of the Society of Arts
... disfigured with stony droppings from the furnace; stringy, thin threads of glass
meandering over its surface ; " ambitty," covered with Btony speckles, symptoms
of incipient devitrification ; conspicuous with gatherers' blisters and blisters from ...
2
Glass Making in England
... 113 Alicant, 33 alkali, 12, 13 All-Hallows Church, 25 Alum Bay sand, 96 Alvixe
di Albertino, 27 ambitty, 46 Amblecote, 25, 101 America, 97 Andever, Viscount,
36 Andriotti, 33 "Anglo-Saxon" glasses, 6 large number in Kent, 9 moulded, figs.
3
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Questions which can be answered from the usual books of re'erence, will not be
printed. QUESTIONS. Amhitty. — I should be glad of any information with regard
to the etymology and history of the term " ambitty." It is used by glass-makers of ...
If there is too much lime, it tends to suffer the change known as devitrification
during working, whereby it becomes crystalline (“ ambitty,” the glassmaker calls it
), and consequently in a state of strain. Fig. 1.- Fragment (full sizel of glass from
York ...
Royal Institute of British Architects, 1921
... also ambient light. ambitty a [Glass-blowing] said of translucent 'antique' glass
which has become devitrified while it is being worked and is used mainly for
leaded lights and similar decorative purposes. ambivalent a [Sex] bisexual.
6
Industrial and manufacturing chemistry
263). The effect of prolonged heating on glass is to tend to make certain
compounds crystallise out. This fact is used technically in the production of a
semi-opaque glass known as ambitty, which consists of ordinary glass
permeated with micro- ...
240 and “ ambitty " below). Hot glass is so viscous that it may be rolled like dough
; it may be blown into hollow vessels by the pressure of the human breath or by
mechanically compressed air; it may be moulded into various shapes by placing
...
8
Elements of Glass and Glass Making
Glass made with sodium sulphate is less liable to devitrify, or become ambitty,
and will bear more lime than carbonate glass ; hence gives a harder glass with a
better polish, and less liable to sweating. Sulphate glass is of a bluish color, while
...
Benjamin Franklin Biser, Julius Arnold Koch, 1899
9
American Architect and Architecture
To the trade this lass is known as “ambitty.” At a short istance from the eye it
resembles the modern “antique” glass in its rou h texture and can be used in its
stead in all decorative schemes and especially in connection with rough surfaces
, ...
10
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
Owing to the furnace being rather cold during the time the glass from this pot was
being worked, devitrification in the form technically known as " ambitty " set in,
and increased to such an extent that blowing was stopped and the pot emptied
by ...
