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burning glass

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burning glass
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(Physics / General Physics) a convex lens for concentrating the sun's rays into a small area to produce heat or fire


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We were silent again, and, in a few seconds it must have been, a live grief beyond words--not ghostly dread or horror, but aching, helpless grief--overwhelmed us, each, I felt, according to his or her nature, and held steady like the beam of a burning glass.
Having feasted, ready to depart with a hind-quarter of the pig in his hand, he deliberately fired the grass thatch of a house with his burning glass.
 
 
 
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