lead glass

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   glass containing lead oxide; has a high refractive index

   Broaderglass

   Narrowerpaste

Questions about lead glass

What does lead glass mean?

lead glass means "glass containing lead oxide; has a high refractive index".

Is lead glass a common word?

lead glass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.