flint glass in English

noun
1
a pure lustrous kind of glass originally made with flint.
The ‘Barlow lens’, a modification of this telescope lens, is a negative achromatic combination of flint glass and crown glass.

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2. An Apochromat lens consists of three different types of glass: two crown glasses, and one flint glass.

3. Newtonians explain this by saying that the achromatic refractor's crown glass and flint glass refract light as a whole with equal intensity but disperse individual colors differently.

4. Aplanat: A system of lenses invented by Adolph Steinheil, in 1866, for use in photography, consisting of a biconvex crown-glass lens placed between two concavo-convex lenses of flint-glass.

5. The Achromatic lens consists of a double convex lens of crown glass combined with a plano-concave lens of flint glass. PHYSICS WILLIS EUGENE TOWER Achromatic lenses are used in all high-grade optical instruments such as telescopes and …