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burning glass

a convex lens for focusing the sun's rays so as to produce heat or set fire to something

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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