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noun Glassware refers to items made of glass, such as drinking glasses, vases, and dishes.

• The restaurant invested in high-quality glassware for serving drinks to their customers.
• I accidentally broke some of the glassware while doing the dishes.
• Check out the fancy glassware they have at that new bar!
• Her delicate emotions were like fragile glassware, easily shattered by harsh words.

noun a device used to measure the refractive index of a substance

• The scientist used an abbe refractometer to measure the refractive index of the liquid sample.
• I borrowed my friend's abbe refractometer to check the purity of the oil.
• I gotta get my hands on an abbe refractometer to test this stuff out.
• Using an abbe refractometer, she could see through the lies and deception.