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glass fiber
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material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- material
- Subclass of
- fiber
- Material used
- glass
- Image
- Glasfaser Roving.jpg
- Has use
- glass wool
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- Commons category
- Glass fibers
- ultimate tensile strength
- 360
- different from
- fiberglass
- subject has role
- carcinogen
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Encyclopedic overview
glass fiber bundle Bundle of glass fibers Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass.
Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with glass fibers, but mass manufacture of glass fiber was only made possible with the invention of finer machine tooling. In 1893, Edward Drummond Libbey exhibited a dress at the World's Columbian Exposition incorporating glass fibers with the diameter and texture of silk fibers. Glass fibers can also occur naturally, as Pele's hair.
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