Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass. Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with...
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Fiberglass (redirect from Fiber glass)
fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet...
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fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage in fiber-optic...
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Glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) is a type of fiber-reinforced concrete. The product is also known as glassfibre reinforced concrete or GRC in British...
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cable. Rigid fiber assemblies sometimes put light-absorbing ("dark") glass between the fibers, to prevent light that leaks out of one fiber from entering...
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materials used in fibers include: Acrylonitrile rubber (1930) Modern fibers that are made from older artificial materials include: Glass fiber (1938) is used...
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raw materials, silica fiber, made from sodium silicate (water glass) and basalt fiber made from melted basalt. Mineral fibers can be particularly strong...
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Glass wool is an insulating material made from glass fiber arranged using a binder into a texture similar to wool. The process traps many small pockets...
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iron content is considered desirable for fiber production. Unlike with other composites, such as glass fiber, essentially no materials are added during...
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irritation. Further, unlike glass fibers, natural fibers can be broken down by bacteria once they are no longer used. Natural fibers are good water absorbents...
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Carbon fiber is sometimes referred to as graphite-reinforced polymer or graphite fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP is less common, as it clashes with glass-(fiber)-reinforced...
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fibers such glass fiber, aramid fiber, and carbon fiber. Hydrophilicity, roughness and surface charge determine the interaction of cellulose fibers with...
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expensive compared to similar fibers, such as glass fiber, basalt fibers, or plastic fibers. To produce a carbon fiber, the carbon atoms are bonded together...
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Filter paper (section Glass fiber filters)
paper pulps. The pulp may be made from softwood, hardwood, fiber crops, or mineral fibers. Filter paper has various properties. The important parameters...
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Glass cloth is a textile material woven from glass fiber yarn. Glass cloth was originally developed to be used in greenhouse paneling, allowing sunlight's...
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process, quartz fiber is more expensive than alternatives (glass fiber and high-silica fiber) and has limited applications. Quartz fiber is made from heating...
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optical fiber connector is a device used to link optical fibers, facilitating the efficient transmission of light signals. An optical fiber connector...
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continuous fibers as well as short fibers (with a length/diameter ratio of less than 100). Compared to other fiber types, like carbon, glass, aramid or...
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optical fibers. Early cladding materials included oils, waxes, and polymers. Lawrence E. Curtiss at the University of Michigan developed the first glass cladding...
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business portfolio of Binani Industries includes sectors like cement, zinc, glass-fiber, and downstream composite products. Binani Industries holds the following...
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active gain medium in fiber lasers for fiber-optic communication. Wafer (electronics) Evgeny Dianov (16 September 2015). "Fiber for Fiber Lasers: Bismuth-doped...
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Wind turbine (section Glass and carbon fibers)
is much higher for hybrid glass/carbon fiber blades than all-glass fiber blades, labor costs can be lower. Using carbon fiber allows simpler designs that...
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Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting for colouration. The proportion usually...
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All-silica fiber, or silica-silica fiber, is an optical fiber whose core and cladding are made of silica glass. The refractive index of the core glass is higher...
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goal in fluoride glass research and development is an ultra-low loss optical fiber communication system. Since fluoride glass fibers are transparent in...
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ZBLAN (section Fiber optics)
of ZBLAN glass compositions is currently owned by Le Verre Fluore, the oldest company working on HMFG technology. Other current ZBLAN fiber manufacturers...
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Glare (derived from GLAss REinforced laminate ) is a fiber metal laminate (FML) composed of several very thin layers of metal (usually aluminum) interspersed...
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Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents. Borosilicate glasses are known for having...
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millimeters thick. G-10 is very similar to Micarta and carbon fiber laminates, except that glass cloth is used as filler material. (Note that the professional...
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Optical amplifier (redirect from Fiber amplifier)
by the spectroscopic properties of the dopant ions, the glass structure of the optical fiber, and the wavelength and power of the pump laser. Although...
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