noun
definition
Scrap glass which is melted down for reuse.
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A small central plane in the back of a cut gem.
Examples of cullet in a Sentence
It is then mixed with the glass mixture and broken glass (" cullet "), and replaced in the J a 6 FIG.
They can be traced by cullet heaps and broken-down furnaces, and by their names, often mutilated, recorded in parish registers.
In the past this has lead to a surplus of green cullet.
Color imbalance The main barrier to recycling glass is the shortage of clear cullet collected in the UK.
The glass is then sold to near by re processors to be turned into glass cullet that is used to make new glass bottles.
The study has also produced a model to help glassmakers optimize furnace efficiency at any combination of production level and cullet ratio.