Vocabulary : Hyalescence to Hyalotype

Hyalescence : The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
Hyaline : Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. ;; A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. ;; The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates. ;; The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
Hyalite : A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Muller's glass.
Hyalograph : An instrument for tracing designs on glass.
Hyalography : Art of writing or engraving on glass.

Hyaloid : Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
Hyalonema : A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.
Hyalophane : A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.
Hyalospongia : An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinae.
Hyalotype : A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.

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