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单词 Vita
释义 Vita1|ˈvaɪtə|
Also vita.
[L., = ‘life’.]
A proprietary term for glass which transmits most of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Usu. as Vita-glass, Vitaglass.
1925Trade Marks Jrnl. 29 July 1649 Vita... Glass. Francis Everard Lamplough, 47, Bunbury Road, King's Norton, Birmingham; chemist.1925Spectator 14 Nov. 869/1 A substitute for quartz... This vitaglass is what I asked for.1939O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 60 The small tight-shut windows..will be replaced by a wide expanse of hygienic vita glass.1948J. Betjeman Coll. Poems (1958) 227 And many a cultivated hour they pass In a fine school with walls of vita-glass.1957Oxford Mag. 17 Oct. 18/2 The well-intended propaganda of Sir Leonard Hill and others about 1930..gave it a new lease of life by preaching that the sun was the best preventative of rickets provided that ‘vitaglass’ windows were used.1981Times 21 Feb. 22/3 The old Marine Spa..contained..a Vita-glass sun lounge.
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