A ceramic or glass material made by fusing ingredients, or the calcined mixture before it's melted into glass or glaze.
From Italian fritta (fried, roasted), past participle of friggere (to fry). The cooking metaphor applies to the high-heat process of fusing glass ingredients, which resembles frying in its transformation of raw materials.
Glassmaking vocabulary often comes from cooking—'frit' from frying, 'calcine' from cooking bones, 'flux' from flowing—because both involve heat transforming solid materials into new substances. Ancient artisans used kitchen language to explain their craft!
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