Noun
fused quartz (countable and uncountable, plural fused quartzes)
(chemical engineering) A type of glass consisting of almost pure silica in amorphous (noncrystalline) form.
Refractive index variation for SF-11 flint glass (upper graph), BK-7 borosilicate glass (middle curve), and fused quartz (dashed curve). Source: Internet
Invar and fused quartz Around 1900 low thermal expansion materials were developed which, when used as pendulum rods, made elaborate temperature compensation unnecessary. Source: Internet
This data file is converted to a series of polygons and written onto a square fused quartz substrate covered with a layer of chromium using a photolithographic process. Source: Internet
This sphere was a fused quartz gyroscope for the Gravity Probe B experiment, and differs in shape from a perfect sphere by no more than 40 atoms (less than 10 nanometers ) of thickness. Source: Internet