frit

4 letters in word "frit": F I R T.

Anagrams of frit:

• rift

Words found within frit:

fir fit if it rif rit ti

• Definitions:
• Ground up bits of colored glass varying in consistency from fine sand-like particles to coarse chunks. It is used as an applied decoration.
• The painted band around the perimeter of auto glass parts. Protects the urethane bead from UV degeneration.
• a glassy frit is composed of silica (found in sand or quartz), a flux (potash or soda) and metallic-oxide pigments. The mixture must be calcined (melted) and ground to a powder before being added to soft-paste porcelain or overglaze emanels.
• Part of the fourth step (glazing) in the manufacturing of ceramic tile. The glaze liquid is prepared from a glass derivative called frit and colored dyes. The glaze is applied by either a high-pressure spray or is poured directly onto the tile.
• previously made glass, ground into a powder and mixed with oxides and oil to give enamel its glass base; this ingredient is important in fusing colors onto the glass body.
• The soldering band that connects the plate glass to the funnel glass in a cathode ray tube.
• Blacked out perimeter of a piece of glass to prevent UV light from damaging the adhesive holding the glass.
• A powder used to coat the mandrel when making glass beads to promote the release of the glass from the mandrel after the glass cools and hardens.
• Powdered glass in various colors used to apply color to hot glass in a speckled or random fashion. Multiple colors can be used to give a wide variation in the resulting piece. Read more about Lampworking...
• Small granules of glass ranging from fine powder to rock-salt size.
• A combination of materials that have been melted into a glass, cooled, and reground into a powder prior to being added to a glaze recipe.
• A frit (sometimes spelled fritt) is a ground glass or glaze used in pottery. Some materials have to be fritted before they can be used because they are soluble or toxic. For example, lead (used in glazes as a flux) is toxic, and borax, used in glaze as a flux and a glass former, is soluble. ...

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