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单词 cullet
释义

cullet

/ˈkʌlɪt /
noun [mass noun]
Recycled broken or waste glass used in glass-making.It goes without saying that the broken glass or cullet used had to be of the required colour or clear, so that no expensive new minerals were added to colour it....
  • One of our earliest industrial containers, glass is made by melting sand, soda ash, limestone, and cullet (recycled crushed glass) in furnaces heated to 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Approximately 80 per cent of the glass now being made in Irish Glass is from cullet or recycled glass.

Origin

Early 19th century: variant of collet, in the obsolete sense 'glass left on the blowing-iron when the finished article is removed'.

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