cullet
/kuhl-it/US // ˈkʌl ɪt //UK // (ˈkʌlɪt) //
涵洞,涵子,涵养,涵义
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : broken or waste glass suitable for remelting.
Examples
Bohemian table or plate glass is made with 63 parts of quartz; 26 of purified potashes; 11 of sifted slaked lime, and some cullet.
This broken glass is called "cullet," and is carefully swept into piles and kept in bins for use in the furnaces.
It is then mixed with the glass mixture and broken glass (“cullet”), and replaced in the crucibles.
They can be traced by cullet heaps and broken-down furnaces, and by their names, often mutilated, recorded in parish registers.
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