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Pyrex is a company name for a strong glass that does not shatter when it gets very hot, so people use it for baking dishes, measuring , and plates that can go in the oven. In many kitchens the brand has become the everyday word: a Pyrex dish often just means that kind of heat-proof glass dish. It sounds like a home word, not a science word. Corning first made it in 1915. Though actually, not every clear oven dish is Pyrex, and older and newer Pyrex glass have not always been the same — but in ordinary talk, Pyrex still means the dish you can put in a hot oven without watching it crack.
Pyrex（耐熱玻璃品牌；廚房裡常直接當普通名詞用。跟「康寧」是不同牌子）
組成From pie + r + -ex. Corning already had other product names ending in -ex. One of the first things sold under the new mark was a pie plate; they put r between pie and ex so it was easier to say, then squeezed the whole thing to Pyrex. The name also makes people think of pyro- (“fire”), which fits hot glass, but that is a hint in the sound, not how the name was built.
同家族的字
- piean early product was a pie plate; the name was pie + -ex with an r in the middle
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Pyrexname
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A brand of glassware produced by the Corning corporation, capable of resisting high temperatures, and suitable for cooking applications, currently made with tempered glass.
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historicalA brand of glassware produced by Corning using borosilicate glass.
pyrexnoun
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A kind of heat-resistant borosilicate glass, made by mixing a high concentration of boron oxides into the molten glass to reduce its thermal expansion coefficient.
- This steel tube slips into the pyrex glass focus tube, which is jacketed by a vacuum
- There is half of a yesteryear's tin of baked beans in a pyrex bowl
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Any borosilicate glass.
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Any glass capable of withstanding high temperatures, such as tempered glass suitable for cooking.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。