isinglass

i·sin·glass  (zn-gls, zng-)

n.

1. A transparent, almost pure gelatin prepared from the air bladder of the sturgeon and certain other fishes and used as an adhesive and a clarifying agent.

2. Mica in thin, transparent sheets.

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[By folk etymology (influenced by glass) from obsolete Dutch huizenblas, from Middle Dutch hsblase : hs, sturgeon + blase, bladder; see bhl- in Indo-European roots.]

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isinglass [ize-ing-glass]

Noun

1. a gelatine made from the air bladders of freshwater fish

2. same as mica [Middle Dutch huysenblase sturgeon bladder]

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isinglass  (zn-gls, zng-)

1. A transparent, almost pure gelatin prepared from the inner membrane of the swim bladder of the sturgeon and certain other fishes. It is used as an adhesive and a clarifying agent.

2. Mica, especially in the form of the mineral muscovite.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

isinglass - any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity mica mineral - solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition biotite - dark brown to black mica found in igneous and metamorphic rock lepidolite - a mineral of the mica group; an important source of lithium muscovite - a colorless or pale brown mica with potassium paragonite - a colorless or pale brown mica with sodium phlogopite - a brown form of mica consisting of hydrous silicate of potassium and magnesium and aluminum translucent substance, transparent substance - a material having the property of admitting light diffusely; a partly transparent material zinnwaldite - a mica containing iron and lithium