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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is Rian Johnson's 2022 Netflix whodunit, the second Knives Out film, with Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc investigating tech billionaire Miles Bron on a Greek island; 139 minutes, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Glass Palace Chronicle

The Glass Palace Chronicle (Hmannan Mahayazawindawgyi) is the standard Burmese chronicle, compiled by 13 scholars appointed by the king and covering Burmese history to the early 19th century.

Glass production

Glass production, also called glass manufacturing, is the industrial process of melting silica sand, soda ash, and limestone to make flat glass, containers, and fibers.

Glass sponge morphology and siliceous skeleton

Glass sponges, class Hexactinellida, are deep-water sponges defined by skeletons of opaline silica spicules built on the six-rayed hexactin, and by syncytial rather than cellular soft tissue.

Glass sponge physiology and reproduction

Glass sponges are deep-sea filter feeders whose syncytial bodies lack nerves and muscles; they arrest pumping electrically, grow 1 to 9 cm yearly, and live up to 500 years.

Glass Tiger

Glass Tiger, Canadian pop rock band from Newmarket, Ontario (formed as Tokyo, 1981); debut The Thin Red Line (1986) was Canada's fastest-selling debut, with "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100; five Juno Awards, 2025 Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees.

Glass transition

The glass transition, or glass transition temperature (Tg), is the temperature at which a supercooled liquid's viscosity is so high it behaves as a solid.

Glass wool

Glass wool, also known as fiberglass insulation, is an insulating material made of fine interwoven glass fibers that trap air, used in buildings, vehicles, and appliances.

Glass-forming ability

Glass-forming ability is a measure of how readily a liquid solidifies into an amorphous glass rather than crystallizing on cooling, quantified by the critical cooling rate and critical casting thickness.

Glass-glass module

A glass-glass module, also called a double-glass module, is a photovoltaic module whose solar cells are sealed between two sheets of glass instead of a polymer backsheet.

GLASS-JWST

GLASS-JWST (Through the Looking GLASS) is a James Webb Space Telescope Early Release Science program led by Tommaso Treu that observed the lensing cluster Abell 2744.

Glass–Steagall legislation

Glass-Steagall legislation: four provisions of the US Banking Act of 1933, also the 1932 Banking Act name, separating commercial and investment banking and creating the FDIC; repealed by Gramm-Leach-Bliley in 1999.

Glassblowing

Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that inflates molten glass into hollow shapes through a tube, invented in the Syro-Palestinian region in the first century B.C.

Glassdoor

Glassdoor is an anonymous employer-review and salary-comparison website founded in California in 2007, where employees post reviews, salaries, and interview questions; Recruit Holdings bought it for $1.2 billion in 2018.

Glasses

Glasses, also called eyeglasses or spectacles, are frames holding lenses worn before the eyes to correct refractive errors, protect the eyes, or both, invented in thirteenth-century Italy.

Glassjaw

Glassjaw is an American post-hardcore band from Hempstead, New York, formed in 1993 by Daryl Palumbo and Justin Beck, known for Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence (2000), Worship and Tribute (2002), and Material Control (2017).

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Glassland

Glassland is a 2014 Irish drama directed by Gerard Barrett, starring Jack Reynor and Toni Collette as a Dublin taxi driver and his alcoholic mother; Sundance Special Jury Prize winner, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Glassomer

Glassomer is a German technology for shaping high-purity fused silica glass like a polymer, molding or 3D printing a powder-binder composite, then heat-treating it to transparent glass.

GlassPoint Solar

GlassPoint Solar is an American company based in Fremont, California, that builds parabolic mirrors inside greenhouses to produce steam, originally for oil recovery and now for industrial heat.

Glasswing Ventures

Glasswing Ventures is a Boston venture capital firm founded by Rudina Seseri and Rick Grinnell, investing at pre-seed and seed stage in AI and cybersecurity startups.

Glassy carbon electrode

A glassy carbon electrode (GCE), also called a vitreous carbon electrode, is a working electrode made of glassy carbon, prized for its wide potential window and chemical inertness in electroanalysis.

Glassy gels

Glassy gels are polymer materials containing over 54% ionic liquid that stay stiff like plastic yet stretch like a gel, introduced at NC State in 2024.

GLAST (tokamak)

GLAST, short for Glass Spherical Tokamak, is a series of small experimental spherical tokamaks in Islamabad, Pakistan, using an insulating Pyrex glass vacuum vessel instead of metal.

Glaston (company)

Glaston Corporation, also known as Glaston Oyj Abp, is a Finnish technology company headquartered in Helsinki that makes machines and services for flat glass processing since 1870.

Glastonbury

Glastonbury, Somerset market town shaped by Glastonbury Abbey (wealthiest in Domesday 1086, burned 1184, dissolved 1539) and Glastonbury Tor; nearby Worthy Farm hosts the Glastonbury Festival, distinct from the town itself.

Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury Abbey, also known as Glastonbury Cathedral, is a ruined medieval Benedictine monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, renowned as the legendary burial place of King Arthur, dissolved in 1539.

Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival (Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts), founded by Michael Eavis in 1970 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, is the world's largest greenfield music festival; family-owned, 200,000+ attendees, 2026 fallow year, next edition June 2027.