Crown glass article Applied photographic optics Book Book- The properties of optical glass Handbook of Ceramics, Glasses, and Diamonds Optical glass construction...

Crown glass is either of two kinds of glass: Crown glass (window) was a type of hand-blown window glass. Crown glass (optics) is a type of optical glass...

potash lead glass that was the precursor to English lead crystal. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flint glass. Crown glass (optics) Chromatic aberration...

Then, by adding phosphates and fluorides, phosphate crowns and fluorine crowns were obtained. As optics became increasingly complex and diverse, manufacturers'...

Gradient-index (GRIN) optics is the branch of optics covering optical effects produced by a gradient of the refractive index of a material. Such gradual...

Attenuation coefficients in fiber optics are usually expressed in units of dB/km. The medium is usually a fiber of silica glass that confines the incident light...

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...

tableware, and optics. Some common objects made of glass are named after the material, e.g. "glass", "glasses", "magnifying glass". Glass is most often...

photography, as the quartz glass can be transparent at much shorter wavelengths than lenses made with more common flint or crown glass formulas. Fused quartz...

Glass microspheres are microscopic spheres of glass manufactured for a wide variety of uses in research, medicine, consumer goods and various industries...

Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents. Borosilicate glasses are known for having...

Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...

Glass-ceramics are polycrystalline materials produced through controlled crystallization of base glass, producing a fine uniform dispersion of crystals...

toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering...

The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline...

Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass. Glassmakers throughout history have experimented with...

Lead glass, commonly called crystal, is a variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass. Lead glass contains typically...

apochromatic lenses, and particularly valuable in photographic optics. Fluorite optics are also usable in the far-ultraviolet and mid-infrared ranges...

frequency. Sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used to refer to optics specifically, as opposed to wave propagation in general. A medium having...

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McCamly (1949). Milk glass. Crown Publishers. p. 327. ISBN 9780517097403. Chiarenza, Frank; James Slater (2007). The Milk Glass Book. A Schiffer book...

Soda–lime glass, also called soda–lime–silica glass, is the transparent glass, used for windowpanes and glass containers (bottles and jars) for beverages...

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in telescope optics, microlithography machines and inertial navigation systems. The main applications for Zerodur include telescope optics in astronomy...

Borophosphosilicate glass, commonly known as BPSG, is a type of silicate glass that includes additives of both boron and phosphorus. Silicate glasses such...

plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth. The plastic...

Cobalt glass—known as "smalt" when ground as a pigment—is a deep blue coloured glass prepared by including a cobalt compound, typically cobalt oxide or...

A glass electrode is a type of ion-selective electrode made of a doped glass membrane that is sensitive to a specific ion. The most common application...

Phosphosilicate glass, commonly referred to by the acronym PSG, is a silicate glass commonly used in semiconductor device fabrication for intermetal layers...

Annealing is a process of slowly cooling hot glass objects after they have been formed, to relieve residual internal stresses introduced during manufacture...