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- What are silicate and non silicate glasses?
- What is silicate glass used for?
- Is glass An example of silicates?
- What is silica glass made of?
What are silicate and non silicate glasses?
Silicate minerals are composed of silicate groups. Nonsilicate minerals do not contain silicate groups. Silicate minerals have highly complex structures. Nonsilicate minerals have less complex structures when compared to silicate minerals.
What is silicate glass used for?
Silica and silicate glasses have been widely used as standard thermal shock-resistant materials for a long time owing to their ultralow thermal expansion coefficients. They are isotropic and therefore free from internal stresses caused by the anisotropic nature of thermal expansion in many crystalline materials.
Is glass An example of silicates?
Some objects, such as drinking glasses and eyeglasses, are so commonly made of silicate-based glass that they are simply called by the name of the material. Although brittle, silicate glass is extremely durable and many examples of glass fragments exist from early glass-making cultures.
What is silica glass made of?
Silica glass is composed of SiO2 only, and contains very little amounts of metallic impurity. Deformation temperature of silica glass is as high as 1,700ºC and therefore it can be well used at such high temperatures around 1,000ºC.
