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Diner Tableware: Although it opens onto a kitchen/Diner Tableware, this living room has its own clear sense of identity. Yellows, oranges and reds give it a warm and cosy atmsophere, distinct from the other room which is lighter and paler.The various types of glass are: lime, from which plate and window glass, hollow ware—such as tumblers, containers, bottles, bowls—inexpensive novelties, and most light bulbs are made; lead, from which insulators, electronic, radio and television tubes, crystal glassware, and certain optical lenses and prisms are made; borosilicate, from which cooking ware, pipe lines, mirror disks —including the 200-inch disk in the Hale telescope at Palomar Mountain, Calif.—are made; 96 per cent silica, sometimes described as the "only new method in five thousand years of glassmaking," from which flame-resistant glass is made; optical, used primarily in the production of lenses and prisms; colored, used for the manufacture of signal lights, colored tableware, and various kinds of drinking glasses and containers; opal, used in making lighting globes, tableware, cosmetic jars, containers, and decorative building panels. |
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