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2. Crystal ball - Wikipedia

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   A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball commonly used in fortune-telling. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying . Used since Antiquity , crystal balls have had a broad reputation with witchcraft , including modern times with charlatan acts and amusements at circus venues, festivals , etc.

3. Glass float - Wikipedia

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   A Japanese glass fishing float. Glass floats were used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.. Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles (80 km) long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy.

4. Yard globe - Wikipedia

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   A gazing ball in a garden located in Breda, Netherlands. A yard globe (also known as a garden globe, gazing ball or chrome ball) is a mirrored sphere displayed as a lawn ornament, typically atop a conical ceramic or wrought iron stand. Sizes ranges from 1 in (25 mm) up to 10 m (33 ft) in diameter, with the most popular gazing ball being 12 in ...

5. Show globe - Wikipedia

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   Hanging Show Globe at the Biological Sciences/Pharmacy Library of Ohio State University A show globe is a glass vessel of various shapes and sizes containing a colorful liquid. [ 1 ] It has been a symbol of pharmacy from the 17th century England to the early 20th century in the United States .

6. Witch ball - Wikipedia

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   A witch ball on display at Whitby Museum in Yorkshire. A witch ball is a hollow sphere of glass. Witch balls were hung in cottage windows in 17th- and 18th-century England to ward off evil spirits, witches, evil spells, ill fortune and bad spirits. [1] The witch ball were used to ward off evil spirits in the English counties of East Sussex and ...

7. Galileo thermometer - Wikipedia

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   A Galileo thermometer (or Galilean thermometer) is a thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying density. The individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density and the density of the surrounding liquid as the temperature changes.