Her own style and technique of painting uses powdered glass fused on steel and is known as "Diaphanism", a term since incorporated into the Oxford English Dictionary.

Enamels of permanent gem-like quality can be made by adding the appropriate metals to powdered glass fused to a metal base.

Their medium is colored glass fused to metal, but their techniques are widely diversified.

A V-shaped filament of platinum wire (diameter 0.3 mm) with a small globule of glass fused to its apex should be fitted to the filament holder.

His lively, light-struck "Spectral Gateway," a pair of panels incorporated into the exhibition's entrance doors, is made of sheets of glass fused with colored rectangles that evoke for me windows by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Oldcastle gave him access to its laboratories in Louisville, Ky., to develop a custom-made glass and experiment with different colors and densities, as well as with firting - glass fused with ceramic.

The mural was done in colored glass, painstakingly fused to the wall in shards no larger than a fingernail, which together portrayed surprisingly realistic images to an observer standing a meter or two away.

Rocks and gobbets of glass fused from sand splattered the underside of the hull moments before the ship started to rise.

"I could look at a piece like this," she says, pointing to an exquisite bottle made of hollow glass fused to a cast base, "and say that at the end of the day, the light comes down and makes this part brilliant."

A prunt is a small blob of glass fused to another piece of glass.