Sentence examples for glass chunk from inspiring English sources

It has drawn many to flock to worship at the altar of the acute angle, renouncing the orthogonal world of rectilinear boxes in favour of the chiselled glass chunk.

Seven vessels and one glass chunk belong to the group of coloured high alumina glasses.

Yet, only three vessels (PEP-016, -017, -074) and possibly one glass chunk (PEP-052) can be singled out by their strong positive correlation between potassium and magnesium oxides (Fig. 1a) and above all on account of their substantially lower alumina levels than the other late Byzantine glasses (Fig. 1b).

Broken glass, chunks of pavement and a tree trunk were scattered across a major road into Kampala, Uganda's capital, on Monday, after a small group of opposition figures led by Kizza Besigye, the runner-up in Uganda's February presidential election, began walking down the street towards central Kampala.

The archaeological study revealed that this workshop was dedicated to the shaping of glass vessels starting from raw glass chunks and, possibly, cullet.

In the 5th century, a secondary glass workshop devoted to the shaping of glass vessels starting from raw glass chunks and, possibly, glass cullet, was active in the area of the harbour.

The presence among the finds of raw glass chunks, glassworking wastes and vessels of similar composition can be interpreted as evidence of a systematic glass-working activity although limited to HIMT and Série 3.2 glass.

In Classe most of the samples are made of glass HIMT (43%) and Série 3.2 (45%) while the Levantine 1 (12%) composition was found only in a few samples and no raw glass chunks.

Raw glass chunks, glassworking wastes and objects of comparable compositions are identified into HIMT and Série 3.2 groups, while the Levantine 1 group includes only objects and glassworking wastes.

Among the warehouses of the harbour of Classe, Building 6 stands out for the number and variety of glass finds retrieved: 973 working indicators (raw glass chunks and scraps) and 540 fragments of vessels, 257 of which recognised as specific forms: beakers (33%), goblets (15%), bottles/jars (10%), bowls (10%) and lamps (5%) for a total amount of 1513 glass fragments.

The lack of such diagnostic correlations may be due to the varied mineralogical composition of sands employed in the primary production of HIMT glass at different times and, possibly, in slightly different locations or can also be interpreted as a result of inter-mixing among raw HIMT glass chunks and/or HIMT cullet of different origins.