Look up: slumping

1. Slumping
   Slumping is one broad technique of warm glass working, for the forming of glass by applying heat to the point where the glass will soften. The increasing fluidity of the glass with temperature causes the glass to `slump` into or onto the mold under the force of gravity. The slumping of a pyrometric...
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2. Slumping
   Method of shaping glass by heating in a furnace until it melts enough to sag over a former
   Found on http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20not
   
   
3. slumping
   1)the downward slipping of a mass of rock or unconsolidated material of any size, moving as a unit or as several subsidiary units, usually with backward rotation on a more or less horizontal axis parallel to the cliff or slope from which it descends; 2)sinking, slipping or settlement around or under...
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4. Slumping
   • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slump
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