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Book SynopsisGlass technologists are fascinated by glass; explora tion as well as application of glass is expanding and the influx of documentation is bewildering. There were about 200 papers on just semi conduction in glasses in 1970 and one has to scan about 200 papers a month to sense the pulse of glass science. Yet there are many in industry and education in science or engineering who require or wish to have coher ent, comprehensive and contemporary information on this exciting material glass. The Tutorial Symposium offered as an Introduction to Glass Science in Alfred represents an earnest attempt to ful fill this need. It has been designed to provide both broad and technical instruction for participants and readers who are not specialists. Glass is not only a material but a condition of matter: the vitreous state. The topic, there fore, is introduced by a careful consideration of the n
Table of ContentsThe Vitreous State.- Chemical Bonding in Non-Crystalline Solids.- The Structure of Glass.- The Infrared and Raman Spectra of Glasses.- The Uses of Electron and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence in Studies of Glass.- General Aspects of the Crystallization of Glass.- Phase Separation of Simple Glasses.- Concepts of Glass-Ceramics.- The Melting of Glass.- Experimental Glass Melting Techniques.- Rheological Behavior of Glass.- Dispersion, Stress-Optical Effects in Glass, Optical Glasses.- The Development of Colors in Glass.- The Fractology of Glass.- The Strength of Glass.- Surface Chemistry of Glass.- The Corrosive Nature of Molten Glass.- Diffusion Processes in Glass.- Electrical Properties of Glass.- Glass To Metal Seals.- Author Index.
