Transparent glass ceramic and cover pane

Abstract

A transparent, chemically prestressable or chemically prestressed glass ceramic has a high transmittance, a low haze and a high crystal phase content of keatite solid solution. A method of making such a glass ceramic includes producing a silicate green glass with a melting process and subsequent hot shaping, temperature treating the silicate green glass with at least one nucleation step carried out in the temperature range of 690° C. to 850° C. for a period of 5 min to 72 h and at least one ceramization step carried out in the temperature range of 780° ° C. to 1100° C. for a period of 3 min to 150 h, and performing at least one ion exchange in an exchange bath at a temperature of the exchange bath between 370° C. and 500° ° C. for a period of between 2 hours and 50 hours

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