All interested parties in the glass industry are invited to participate in the development of a proposed new standard guide for the safe handling of annealed glass. The new standard will be developed ...

EVERYONE who makes chemical apparatus by blowing glass practises annealing in a rude way. by allowing the glass to cool slowly by g actual removal from the flame, or by the use of a smoky flame. In ...

Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

(CBS) --Lean against or touch certain glass windows and doors and you can actually be putting yourself in danger. CBS 2's Dave Savini shows how the danger lies with how the glass is made. "This is a ...

South Korean researchers developed a process that allows the use of aluminum-doped zinc oxide film in radiation-shielding quartz glass. A demonstration in III-V solar photovoltaic space modules showed ...

Glass is heat-treated for two reasons: the first is to increase its strength to resist external stresses such as wind and snow loads, or thermal loads caused by the sun’s energy. The second is to ...

When the first Orion astronauts stare back at Earth, they'll be looking through windows made mostly of plastic. Because Orion is designed to carry out manned deep-space missions and even a possible ...

A PAPER by E. S. Morris on the application of electricity to the annealing of glass bottles and containers (J. Inst. Elec. Eng., 89, Pt. 2, No. 10 ; Aug., 1942) first explains the nature and primary ...