glass wool

A non-electric house utilizes chaff, whose heat insulation performance is as good as glass wool, to the maximum.

The plant would reportedly produce around 90,000 tonnes of glass wool each year.

The glass wool and diatomaceous earth and other goodies in the filter (the report had a long list) grew radioactive themselves after a while.

The name is a portmanteau of the Norwegian word glassvatt, meaning glass wool.

The most common modern day material is glass wool, or wrappings of aluminium foil.

The ends of the U-tube are porous membranes or even just plugs of glass wool.

A pad of glass wool is used at the bottom of the column to prevent the slurry from running out (see figure 6.41).

However this cannot be realized fully because the glass wool or foam needed to prevent convection increases the heat conduction compared to that of still air.

He estimated that by isolating the ice with glass wool ("glassvatt" in Norwegian) made from fibreglass, the driver could make several million francs.

Blades for a cascade can be manufactured from wood, epoxy resin, glass wool, araldite or aluminium.