Lime Glass

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Glass that has no flint or lead, which characteristics are achieved by chalk, sodium bicarbonate, sand and niter. The glass was developed by Leighton at the plant of Hobbs, Bruckunier, at Wheeling, Va., c. 1860. Lime glass became the choice for pressed glass by 1866.

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