Process for the treatment of a glass to reduce its wettability by gallium and an apparatus produced from such a treated glass
AssigneeRhone-Poulenc Chimie
InventorsHubert Lauvray, Jean-Charles Maurice, Jean-Louis Sabot
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Abstract
A process for the treatment of a glass to reduce or remove its wettability by gallium is provided, wherein the glass is treated with a silyling agent. Also is provided an apparatus comprising at least one hollow element containing a gallium or gallium based alloy or in which a gallium or gallium based alloy can circulate, wherein the glass forming the hollow element has been treated using the process. The apparatus may be thermometer, barometer or electric switch.
Claims8
A process for the treatment of a glass to reduce or remove its wettability by gallium or a gallium based alloy, comprising the steps of treating the glass with a silyling agent.
An apparatus comprising at least one hollow glass element which delimits a space containing gallium or a gallium based alloy, wherein the glass forming the hollow element has been treated with a silyling agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.