Glass production methods

Janssen et al. (1998) analyzed 180 archaeological glass vessels from the fifteenth to seventeenth century using x-ray methods to determine the concentrations of 13 elements present in the glass. The goal of this study was to learn about glass production... 

The use of iron oxide as a polishing medium for plate glass manufacture has decreased now that other methods of glass production are available. 

Production. There are three important methods for manufacturing barium ferrite on an industrial scale the ceramic, hydrothermal, and glass crystallization methods. The main producers are Toshiba and Toda. 

Table 1. Bulk glass forming alloy systems and the production methods, d is the smallest sample dimension. 

The blowpipe method continues to be used to produce specialty items such as lead crystal goblets and other decorative glasses. Production of the vast quantity of containers used today, however, requires total automation of the same processes used by the glass blower. Mechanical... 

This chapter does not cover the processing of some special glass products. For example, the processing of optical fibers is described in Chapter 32, but we introduce the important ideas here. Optical fibers must meet stringent quality requirements. We must understand these requirements to understand why the elaborate processing methods are necessary. 

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