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glaze (glāz) in dentistry, a ceramic veneer added to a porcelain restoration, to simulate enamel.
glaze
[glāz]
Etymology: ME, glasen
1  v, to cover with a glossy, smooth surface or coating.
2  n, a ceramic veneer added to a dental porcelain restoration after it has been fired, to give a completely nonporous, glossy or semiglossy surface.
3  n, the final firing (in air) of dental porcelain, when formation of a thin, vitreous, glossy surface takes place.

glaze,
n a critical stage in the final firing of dental porcelain when complete fusion takes place, with the formation of a thin, vitreous, glossy surface, or glaze.


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In a scumbling technique that results in scuff marks on the surface of the paintings, a window appears that adds a peculiar perspective to the work.
Nancy Turner's examination of the painting techniques of five illuminators over the course of a century focuses (literally, and at high magnification) not on the analysis of pigments but on the tiny strokes, scumbling, and washes of color, the varying coarseness of ground pigment, and the ingenious depiction of so elusive a subject as spittle, that made the work of Flemish miniaturists so sought after.
The moody scumbling, planar layers, and primarily vertical format of Pierre Soulages's walnut-stain works on paper, a selection of which were exhibited recently at Haim Chanin Fine Arts, signal a strong affinity with the paintings of Mark Rothko.
 
 
 
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