Transparent, colorless, tin-fined LAS glass-ceramics with improved microstructure and optical properties
AssigneeEurokera
InventorsIsabelle Marie Chauvel-Melscoet, Marie Jacqueline Monique Comte
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Abstract
Transparent, essentially colorless and non-diffusing β-quartz glass-ceramics and glass compositions for forming the same have a composition, free of arsenic oxide, antimony oxide and rare earth oxides except for inevitable trace amounts, which contains, expressed as percentages by weight of oxides 62-72% of SiO2, 20-23% of Al2O3, 2.8-5% of Li2O, 0.1-0.6% of SnO2, 1.9-4% of TiO2, 1.6-3% of ZrO2, less than 0.4% of MgO, 2.5-6% of ZnO and/or BaO and/or SrO, less than 250 ppm of Fe2O3; and their crystallites present in the β-quartz solid solution have an average size of less than 35 nm. The glass-ceramics exhibit low thermal expansion and are easily obtained at an industrial scale.
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A transparent, essentially colorless and non-diffusing glass-ceramic of the lithium aluminosilicate type containing a β-quartz solid solution as a main crystalline phase, wherein its composition, free of arsenic oxide, antimony oxide and rare earth oxides except for inevitable trace amounts, contains, expressed as percentages by weight of oxides:
- 62-72% of SiO2,
- 20-23% of Al2O3,
- 2.8-5% of Li2O,
- 0.1-0.6% of SnO2,
- 1.9-4% of TiO2,
- 1.6-3% of ZrO2,
- less than 0.4% of MgO,
- 2.5-6% of ZnO and/or BaO and/or SrO,
- less than 250 ppm of Fe2O3;
- and the crystallites present in said β-quartz solid solution have an average size of less than 35 nm.
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