English-Finnish translations for crown glass

Definition of crown glass

  • An early type of window glass made by blowing glass into a hollow globe and then flattening it on a punty, reheating and spinning out into a flat disk by centrifugal force

Examples

  • The convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass.

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