Glasses, colored

The tendency of the color to become darker with time is often indicative of chemical degradation. The test is conducted with the aid of a colorimeter (NF T 60-104 and ASTM D 1500) and by comparison with colored glass standards. The scale varies from 0.5 to 8. The French specifications stipulate that diesel fuel color should be less than 5, which corresponds to an orange-brown tint. Generally, commercial products are light yellow with indices from 1 to 2. 

Color NF T 60-104 ISO 2049 ASTM D 1500 Comparison with colored glass standard references... 

Saybolt color NF M 07-003 ASTM D 156 standard Height of liquid column for equality with colored glass... 

Selenium is used in Xerography for reproducing and copying documents, letters, etc. It is used by the glass industry to decolorize glass and to make ruby-colored glasses and enamels. It is also used as a photographic toner, and as an additive to stainless steel. 

Planet Uranus) Yellow-colored glass, containing more than 1% uranium oxide and dating back to 79 A.D., has been found near Naples, Italy. Klaproth recognized an unknown element in pitchblende and attempted to isolate the metal in 1789. 

W. A. Weyl, Colored Glasses, Society of Glass Technology, Sheffield (Reprinted by Dawson s of Pak Mak, London) 1951. 

Nickel carbonate is used in the manufacture of catalysts, in the preparation of colored glass (qv), in the manufacture of certain nickel pigments, and as a neutralizing compound in nickel electroplating solutions. It also is used in the preparation of many specialty nickel compounds. 

The light beam passes through a filter system. The filters may be colored glass or special interference filters that allow very narrow spectral cuts. 

Thus, most of the color in glass is produced by metallic ions derived from minerals, usually in relatively small amounts within the glass structure. Already in antiquity there was awareness of the effects of some other metals on the color of glass. It was known then, for example, that even relatively small amounts of specific metals, included as minerals in the components of a glass melt, could produce colored glass particular metalliferous minerals were therefore added to glass melts so as to produce special and... 

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