Crown glass article Applied photographic optics Book Book- The properties of optical glass Handbook of Ceramics, Glasses, and Diamonds Optical glass construction...
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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...
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potash lead glass that was the precursor to English lead crystal. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flint glass. Crown glass (optics) Chromatic aberration...
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Then, by adding phosphates and fluorides, phosphate crowns and fluorine crowns were obtained. As optics became increasingly complex and diverse, manufacturers'...
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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...
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and optics. Some common objects made of glass like "a glass" of water, "glasses", and "magnifying glass", are named after the material. Glass is most...
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Optical fiber (redirect from Fiber optics)
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...
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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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Fused quartz (redirect from Quartz glass)
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...
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Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...
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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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Ernst Abbe (category History of glass)
Abbe–Porro prism Aberration in optical systems Crown glass (optics) Dermatoscopy Diaphragm (optics) Calculation of glass properties Optical aberration Optical...
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toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering...
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The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline...
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Glass-ceramics are polycrystalline materials produced through controlled crystallization of base glass, producing a fine uniform dispersion of crystals...
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Zerodur (category Glass types)
in telescope optics, microlithography machines and inertial navigation systems. The main applications for Zerodur include telescope optics in astronomy...
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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...
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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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Fluorite (redirect from Fluorite glass)
apochromatic lenses, and particularly valuable in photographic optics. Fluorite optics are also usable in the far-ultraviolet and mid-infrared ranges...
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frequency. Sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used for to refer to optics specifically, as opposed to wave propagation in general. A medium having...
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Glass microspheres are microscopic spheres of glass manufactured for a wide variety of uses in research, medicine, consumer goods and various industries...
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Soda–lime glass, also called soda–lime–silica glass, is the most prevalent type of glass, used for windowpanes and glass containers (bottles and jars)...
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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...
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Sodium silicate (redirect from Water glass)
compounds, chiefly the metasilicate, also called waterglass, water glass, or liquid glass. The product has a wide variety of uses, including the formulation...
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Amici prism (redirect from Amici glass-prism)
medium-dispersion crown glass, and the second from a higher-dispersion flint glass. Light entering the first prism is refracted at the first air–glass interface...
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Fiberglass (redirect from Glass reinforced plastic)
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...
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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...
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Prince Rupert's drop (redirect from Glass drop)
known as Dutch tears or Batavian tears) are toughened glass beads created by dripping molten glass into cold water, which causes it to solidify into a tadpole-shaped...
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Crossing (physics) Crosswind Crow instability Crowbar (circuit) Crown glass (optics) CryoEDM Cryocooler Cryoelectronics Cryogenic Dark Matter Search...
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include toughened glass (also known as tempered glass), laminated glass, and wire mesh glass (also known as wired glass). Toughened glass was invented in...
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