Sentence examples for fire polish from inspiring English sources

The directions, on the back of the package, are easy to follow (although cautionary notes warn not to set the mandoline on fire, polish it with tooth powder or wash it with gasoline).

All these pieces might be finished with a fire polish by returning them to the furnace, but many mold-pressed glasses were, in fact, given a rotary polish, either by means of a spinning wheel fed with abrasives or by a process similar to lathe turning, in which the object spins and the tool is stationary.

"I create a slab of glass, cut my shape with the ring saw, fine tune them by cold working and grinding and fire polish in the kiln to shine the edges.

It is possible, however, to reshape the tip during fire polishing by pressurizing the pipette lumen during fire polishing, a technique we call 'pressure polishing.' We find that this technique works with pipettes made from virtually any type of glass, including thick-walled aluminasilicate glass.

Glass may be strengthened using one of several processes: temporarily reducing the severity of flaws by fire polishing or "etching" (i.e., chemical polishing); introducing surface compression by overlay glazing, thermal tempering, or ion exchange; and toughening by lamination.

This can be accomplished by two methods: fire polishing, a procedure that removes alkali ions by volatilization; or surface treatment with a mixture of sulfur dioxide and steam, which extracts alkali by leaching and converting to washable alkali sulfate.

Its decoration was by that time mostly designed in imitation of cut glass, and the process of fire polishing was being used to give a surface almost as smooth as that of blown glass.

Fire polishing requires a very good timing and positioning.

Fire polishing melts the glass and makes pipette tips smoother but it also has a blunting effect on tips which change the pipette shape and sharpness.

After fire polishing, the pipette resistance was 7 13 MΩ when filled with the recording solution.

Patch pipettes were pulled from borosilicate glass and had resistances of 0.40 1 MΩ after fire polishing.