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Borosilicate glass

Index Borosilicate glass

Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents. [1]

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Aluminosilicate

Aluminosilicate minerals are minerals composed of aluminium, silicon, and oxygen, plus countercations.

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Amateur telescope making

Amateur telescope making is the activity of building telescopes as a hobby, as opposed to being a paid professional.

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Arc International

Arc International is a French manufacturer and distributor of household goods.

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Astroscan

The Astroscan was a wide-field 4⅛" clear-inch (105mm) diameter reflecting telescope, originally produced by the Edmund Scientific Corporation, that was for sale from 1976 to 2013.

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Atomic force microscopy

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning force microscopy (SFM) is a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), with demonstrated resolution on the order of fractions of a nanometer, more than 1000 times better than the optical diffraction limit.

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Bakerite

Bakerite is the common name given to hydrated calcium boro-silicate hydroxide, a borosilicate mineral (chemical formula Ca4B4(BO4)(SiO4)3(OH)3·(H2O)) that occurs in volcanic rocks in the Baker, California area.

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Barium metaphosphate

Barium metaphosphate is an inorganic substance with the molecular formula Ba(PO3)2.

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Beaker (glassware)

A beaker is a generally cylindrical container with a flat bottom.

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Bert Bolle Barometer

The Bert Bolle Barometer is a large water barometer.

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Bocci

Bocci is a Canadian design and manufacturing company based in Vancouver and Berlin, founded in 2005 by Randy Bishop and Omer Arbel.

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Bodum

Bodum, Inc., (also stylised BODUM and bodum) is a tableware and kitchenware company founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1944 by Peter Bodum.

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Boiling tube

A boiling tube looks much like a test tube. A boiling tube is a small cylindrical vessel used to strongly heat substances in the flame of a Bunsen burner.

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Bong

A bong (also water pipe, billy, bing, or moof) is a filtration device generally used for smoking cannabis, tobacco, or other herbal substances.

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Borate

Borates are the name for a large number of boron-containing oxyanions.

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Boro

Boro may refer to.

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Boron

Boron is a chemical element with symbol B and atomic number 5.

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Boron group

The boron group are the chemical elements in group 13 of the periodic table, comprising boron (B), aluminium (Al), gallium (Ga), indium (In), thallium (Tl), and perhaps also the chemically uncharacterized nihonium (Nh).

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Boron nitride

Boron nitride is a heat and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN.

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Boron sulfide

Boron sulfide is the chemical compound with the formula B2S3.

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Boron trioxide

Boron trioxide (or diboron trioxide) is one of the oxides of boron.

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Borosilicate glass

Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents.

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BSG

BSG may refer to.

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Caesium

Caesium (British spelling and IUPAC spelling) or cesium (American spelling) is a chemical element with symbol Cs and atomic number 55.

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Calcium borate

Calcium borate (Ca3(BO3)2), also called Gerstley borate, is a bluish white crystal with a very defined structure.

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Calculation of glass properties

The calculation of glass properties (glass modeling) is used to predict glass properties of interest or glass behavior under certain conditions (e.g., during production) without experimental investigation, based on past data and experience, with the intention to save time, material, financial, and environmental resources, or to gain scientific insight.

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Cannabis smoking

Cannabis smoking is the inhalation of smoke or vapors released by heating the flowers, leaves, or extracts of cannabis and releasing the main psychoactive chemical, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is absorbed into the bloodstream via the lungs.

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Chance Brothers

Chance Brothers and Company was a glassworks originally based in Spon Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands (formerly in Staffordshire), in England.

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Chromatography column

A Chromatography column is a device used in chromatography for the separation of chemical compounds.

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Construction of electronic cigarettes

An electronic cigarette is a battery-powered vaporizer.

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Container glass

Container glass is a type of glass for the production of glass containers, such as bottles, jars, drinkware, and bowls.

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Cookware and bakeware

Cookware and bakeware are types of food preparation containers, commonly found in a kitchen.

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Corelle Brands

Corelle Brands, LLC is an American kitchenware products maker and distributor based in Rosemont, Illinois.

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Corrective lens

A corrective lens is a lens typically worn in front of the eye to improve vision.

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Corrosion

Corrosion is a natural process, which converts a refined metal to a more chemically-stable form, such as its oxide, hydroxide, or sulfide.

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Crown glass (optics)

Crown glass is a type of optical glass used in lenses and other optical components.

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Cupola (ISS module)

The Cupola is an ESA-built observatory module of the International Space Station (ISS).

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Dealkalization

Dealkalization is a process of surface modification applicable to glasses containing alkali ions, wherein a thin surface layer is created that has a lower concentration of alkali ions than is present in the underlying, bulk glass.

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Dielectric strength

In physics, the term dielectric strength has the following meanings.

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Dildo

A dildo is a sex toy, often explicitly phallic in appearance, intended for sexual penetration or other sexual activity during masturbation or with sex partners.

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Dissolved gas analysis

Dissolved gas analysis (DGA) is the study of dissolved gases in transformer oil.

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Double penetration dildo

A double penetration dildo or double dildo is a sex toy that allows for the simultaneous penetration of two bodily orifices at the same time.

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Duran (glass)

DURAN is a brand name for the internationally defined borosilicate glass 3.3 (DIN ISO 3585) produced by the German company since 2005 under license from the Schott AG, which was the first to develop it and sold it from 1893 until the equity carve-out of the DURAN Group in 2005.

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Electrophysiology

Electrophysiology (from Greek ἥλεκτρον, ēlektron, "amber"; φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues.

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Evaporating dish

An evaporating dish or watch glass is a piece of laboratory glassware used for the evaporation of solutions and supernatant liquids,A supernatant liquid is a fluid containing a saturated solution of a dissolved compound, overlying a forming precipitate of this compound.

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Fernico

Fernico describe a family of metal alloys made primarily of iron, nickel and cobalt.

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Fire-King

Fire-King is an Anchor Hocking brand of glassware similar to Pyrex.

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Fisher-Porter tube

A Fisher-Porter tube or Fisher-Porter vessel is a glass pressure vessel used in the chemical laboratory.

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Flashtube

A flashtube, also called a flashlamp, is an electric arc lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for very short durations.

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Float glass

Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal, typically tin, although lead and various low melting point alloys were used in the past.

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Florence flask

A Florence flask is a type of flask used as an item of laboratory glassware.

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Fused quartz

Fused quartz or fused silica is glass consisting of silica in amorphous (non-crystalline) form.

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Germicidal lamp

A germicidal lamp is a special type of lamp which produces ultraviolet (UVC) light.

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Giant Magellan Telescope

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a ground-based extremely large telescope under construction, planned for completion in 2025.

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Glass

Glass is a non-crystalline amorphous solid that is often transparent and has widespread practical, technological, and decorative usage in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optoelectronics.

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Glass beadmaking

The technology for glass beadmaking is among the oldest human arts, dating back 3,000 years (Dubin, 1987).

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Glass code

A glass code is a method of classifying glasses for optical use, such as the manufacture of lenses and prisms.

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Glass coloring and color marking

Glass coloring and color marking may be obtained by 1) addition of coloring ions,Bernard H. W. S. De Jong, Ruud G. C. Beerkens, Peter A. van Nijnatten: "Glass", in: "Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry"; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2002, by 2) precipitation of nanometer sized colloides (so-called striking glassesBernard H. W. S. De Jong, Ruud G. C. Beerkens, Peter A. van Nijnatten: "Glass", in: "Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry"; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2002, such as "gold ruby" or red "selenium ruby"),Werner Vogel: "Glass Chemistry"; Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K; 2nd revised edition (November 1994), 3) by colored inclusions (as in milk glass and smoked glass), 4) by light scattering (as in phase separated glass), 5) by dichroic coatings (see dichroic glass), or 6) by colored coatings.

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Glass fiber

Glass fiber (or glass fibre) is a material consisting of numerous extremely fine fibers of glass.

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Glass production

Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers.

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Glass recycling

Glass recycling is the processing of waste glass into usable products.

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Glass rod

A glass stirring rod, glass rod, stirring rod or stir rod is a piece of laboratory equipment used to mix chemicals and liquids for laboratory purposes.

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Glass tube

Glass tubes are mainly cylindrical hollow-wares.

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Glass-coated wire

Glass-coating is a process invented in 1924 by G. F. Taylor and converted into production machine by Ulitovski for producing fine glass-coated metal filaments only a few micrometres in diameter.

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Glass-to-metal seal

Glass-to-metal seals are a very important element of the construction of vacuum tubes, electric discharge tubes, incandescent light bulbs, glass encapsulated semiconductor diodes, reed switches, pressure tight glass windows in metal cases, and metal or ceramic packages of electronic components.

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Glassblowing

Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison), with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube).

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Glava

Glava AS is a Norwegian industrial company with headquarters in Askim.

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Glossary of glass art terms

A glossary of terms used in glass art.

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Gorilla Glass

Gorilla Glass is a brand of specialized toughened glass developed and manufactured by Corning, now in its fifth generation, designed to be thin, light and damage-resistant.

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Graduated pipette

A graduated pipette is a pipette with its volume, in increments, marked along the tube.

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Hale Telescope

The Hale telescope is a, f/3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, US, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale.

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History of glass

The history of glass-making can be traced back to 3500 BC Asia in Mesopotamia.

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Holophane

Holophane, a division of Acuity Brands, is a manufacturer of lighting-related products founded in 1898 in London, England.

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Homilite

Homilite is a borosilicate mineral belonging to the gadolinite group of minerals with formula Ca2(Fe,Mg)B2Si2O10.

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Infrared open-path detector

Infrared open-path gas detectors send out a beam of infrared light, detecting gas anywhere along the path of the beam.

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Invar

Invar, also known generically as FeNi36 (64FeNi in the US), is a nickel–iron alloy notable for its uniquely low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE or α).

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Joint clip

Joint clips are used to prevent a joint from separating during a reaction process.

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Kodial

Kodial may refer to.

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Kopernik Observatory & Science Center

The Kopernik Observatory & Science Center (KOSC) is a public observatory in Vestal, New York opened to the public on 16 June 1974 by the Kopernik Society of Broome County to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) in 1973.

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Kovar

Kovar (trademark of CRS Holdings, inc., Delaware) is a nickel–cobalt ferrous alloy compositionally identical to Fernico 1, designed to have substantially the same thermal expansion characteristics as borosilicate glass (~5 × 10−6 /K between 30 and 200 °C, to ~10 × 10−6 /K at 800 °C) in order to allow a tight mechanical joint between the two materials over a range of temperatures.

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Laboratory glassware

Laboratory glassware refers to a variety of equipment in scientific work traditionally made of glass.

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Lampworking

Lampworking is a type of glasswork where a torch or lamp is primarily used to melt the glass.

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Langesundsfjord

The Langesundsfjord, also known as the Breviksfjord, is a stretch of fjord from northern Skagerrak, between the islands of Sandøya, Bjørkøya and Siktesøya in Porsgrunn municipality and the mainland of Bamble municipality, in Telemark county in the southeastern part of Norway.

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Laser engraving

Laser engraving, which is a subset of laser marking, is the practice of using lasers to engrave an object.

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Liquid fluoride thorium reactor

The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (acronym LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor.

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List of cooking vessels

This is a list of cooking vessels.

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List of German inventors and discoverers

---- This is a list of German inventors and discoverers.

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List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) inductees includes over 500 inventors spanning three centuries of lifetimes.

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List of people from Mainz

This is a list of notable people who were born in or associated with Mainz.

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List of physical properties of glass

This is a list of some physical properties of common glasses.

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List of refractive indices

Many materials have a well-characterized refractive index, but these indexes depend strongly upon the frequency of light.

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Low emissivity

Low emissivity (low e or low thermal emissivity) refers to a surface condition that emits low levels of radiant thermal (heat) energy.

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Luting agent

A luting agent is an application of a dental cement.

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Macor

Macor is the trademark for a machineable glass-ceramic developed and sold by Corning Inc. It is a white material that looks somewhat like porcelain.

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Materials for use in vacuum

Materials for use in vacuum are materials showing very low rate of outgassing in vacuum, and, where applicable, tolerant to the bake-out temperatures.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 5001–6000

|- | 5001 EMP || || The annual publication Ephemerides Of Minor Planets (Ehfemeridy Malykh Planet).

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Mercury-vapor lamp

A mercury-vapor lamp is a gas discharge lamp that uses an electric arc through vaporized mercury to produce light.

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Metalloid

A metalloid is any chemical element which has properties in between those of metals and nonmetals, or that has a mixture of them.

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Michael Taylor (glass artist)

Michael Taylor is an American studio glass artist, teacher and lecturer.

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Microscope slide

A microscope slide is a thin flat piece of glass, typically 75 by 26 mm (3 by 1 inches) and about 1 mm thick, used to hold objects for examination under a microscope.

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Nanopin film

Nanopin film is an experimental material in nanotechnology developed in 2005 with unusual superhydrophobic properties.

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Neutron radiation

Neutron radiation is a form of ionizing radiation that presents as free neutrons.

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NMR tube

An NMR tube is a thin glass walled tube used to contain samples in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a magnetic field absorb and re-emit electromagnetic radiation.

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Ohara Corporation

Ohara Corporation is the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese optical manufacturer Ohara Group.

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Optical fiber

An optical fiber or optical fibre is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair.

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Optical flat

An optical flat is an optical-grade piece of glass lapped and polished to be extremely flat on one or both sides, usually within a few tens of nanometres (billionths of a meter).

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Optical lens design

Optical lens design is the process of designing a lens to meet a set of performance requirements and constraints, including cost and manufacturing limitations.

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Otto Schott

Friedrich Otto Schott (17 December 1851 – 27 August 1935) was a German chemist, glass technologist, and the inventor of borosilicate glass.

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Pasteur pipette

Pasteur pipettes, also known as droppers or eye droppers, are used to transfer small quantities of liquids.

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Penning mixture

A Penning mixture, named after Frans Michel Penning, is a mixture of gases used in electric lighting or displaying fixtures.

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Phosphate glass

Phosphate glass is a class of optical glasses composed of metaphosphates of various metals.

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Photodegradation

Photodegradation is the alteration of materials by light.

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Photomultiplier

Photomultiplier tubes (photomultipliers or PMTs for short), members of the class of vacuum tubes, and more specifically vacuum phototubes, are extremely sensitive detectors of light in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Pipe smoking

Pipe smoking is the practice of tasting (or, less commonly, inhaling) the smoke produced by burning a substance, most commonly tobacco, in a pipe.

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Pipette

A pipette (sometimes spelled pipet) is a laboratory tool commonly used in chemistry, biology and medicine to transport a measured volume of liquid, often as a media dispenser.

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Piston-cylinder apparatus

The piston-cylinder apparatus is a solid media device, used in Geosciences and Material Sciences, for generating simultaneously high pressure (up to 6 GPa) and temperature (up to 1700 °C).

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Plutonium

Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Pu and atomic number 94.

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Porous glass

Porous glass is glass that includes pores, usually in the nanometre- or micrometre-range, commonly prepared by one of the following processes: through metastable phase separation in borosilicate glasses (such as in their system SiO2-B2O3-Na2O), followed by liquid extraction of one of the formed phases; through the sol-gel process; or simply by sintering glass powder.

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Pyrex

Pyrex (trademarked as PYREX) is a brand introduced by Corning Inc. in 1908 for a line of clear, low-thermal-expansion borosilicate glass used for laboratory glassware and kitchenware.

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Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is waste that contains radioactive material.

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Raschig ring

Raschig rings are pieces of tube, approximately equal in length and diameter, used in large numbers as a packed bed within columns for distillations and other chemical engineering processes.

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RCA clean

The RCA clean is a standard set of wafer cleaning steps which need to be performed before high-temperature processing steps (oxidation, diffusion, CVD) of silicon wafers in semiconductor manufacturing.

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Reagent bottle

Reagent bottles, also known as media bottles or graduated bottles, are containers made of glass, plastic, borosilicate or related substances, and topped by special caps or stoppers and are intended to contain chemicals in liquid or powder form for laboratories and stored in cabinets or on shelves.

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Refining (glass)

Refining is the removal of bubbles from the molten glass.

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Refmex GL Glass

Refmex GL Glass is a Mexican manufacturer of high-quality industrial glass products.

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Rijke tube

Rijke's tube turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave.

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Roles of chemical elements

This table is designed to show the role(s) performed by each chemical element, in nature and in technology.

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RooR

RooR (stylized as ROOЯ) is a Frankenthal-based company that produces high-end borosilicate jointed-glass bongs.

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Round-bottom flask

Round-bottom flasks (also called round-bottomed flasks, Flasks, round bottom, or R B Flasks) are types of flasks having spherical bottoms used as laboratory glassware, mostly for chemical or biochemical work.

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Saunders-Roe

Saunders-Roe Limited, also known as Saro, was a British aero- and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

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Schlenk flask

A Schlenk flask, or Schlenk tube is a reaction vessel typically used in air-sensitive chemistry, invented by Wilhelm Schlenk.

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SCHOTT-Rohrglas GmbH

SCHOTT AG Site Mitterteich (former SCHOTT-Rohrglas GmbH) in Mitterteich, Germany is one of the leading manufacturers of glass tubing and with more than 1000 employees, it is one of the largest employers in the Tirschenreuth district as well as in the whole Northern Upper Palatine.

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Scintillator

A scintillator is a material that exhibits scintillation—the property of luminescence, when excited by ionizing radiation.

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Searlesite

Searlesite is a sodium borosilicate mineral, with the chemical formula NaBSi2O5(OH)2.

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Sellmeier equation

The Sellmeier equation is an empirical relationship between refractive index and wavelength for a particular transparent medium.

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Separatory funnel

A separatory funnel, also known as separation funnel, separating funnel, or colloquially sep funnel, is a piece of laboratory glassware used in liquid-liquid extractions to separate (partition) the components of a mixture into two immiscible solvent phases of different densities.

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Sex toy

A sex toy is an object or device that is primarily used to facilitate human sexual pleasure, such as a dildo or vibrator.

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Sight glass

A sight glass or water gauge is a type of level sensor, a transparent tube through which the operator of a tank or boiler can observe the level of liquid contained within.

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Silicon dioxide

Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms.

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Sneath Glass Company

The Sneath Glass Company was an American manufacturer of glass and glassware.

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Sodium borohydride

Sodium borohydride, also known as sodium tetrahydridoborate and sodium tetrahydroborate, is an inorganic compound with the formula NaBH4.

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Sodium-vapor lamp

A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm.

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Solder

Solder (or in North America) is a fusible metal alloy used to create a permanent bond between metal workpieces.

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Sorption pump

The sorption pump is a vacuum pump that creates a vacuum by adsorbing molecules on a very porous material like molecular sieve which is cooled by a cryogen, typically liquid nitrogen.

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Source Four

The Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) Source Four (also known unofficially as Source 4 or S4) is an ellipsoidal reflector spotlight (ERS) used in stage lighting.

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Space Shuttle thermal protection system

The Space Shuttle thermal protection system (TPS) is the barrier that protected the Space Shuttle Orbiter during the searing heat of atmospheric reentry.

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Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science

The Special Astrophysical Observatory (Специальная Астрофизическая Обсерватория), or SAO RAS for short, is an astronomical observatory, set up in 1966 in the USSR, now operated by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Stained glass

The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works created from it.

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Synroc

Synroc, a portmanteau of "synthetic rock", is a means of safely storing radioactive waste.

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Test tube

A test tube, also known as a culture tube or sample tube, is a common piece of laboratory glassware consisting of a finger-like length of glass or clear plastic tubing, open at the top and closed at the bottom.

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Thermal expansion

Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to change in shape, area, and volume in response to a change in temperature.

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Thermal shock

Thermal shock occurs when a thermal gradient causes different parts of an object to expand by different amounts.

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Tienshanite

Tienshanite, named for the Tian Shan Range in Mongolia, is a rare borosilicate mineral, though rock-forming in some parts of its original locality at the Dara-i-Pioz Glacier in Tajikistan.

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Toughened glass

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

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Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without being scattered.

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Transparent ceramics

Many ceramic materials, both glassy and crystalline, have found use as optically transparent materials in various forms from bulk solid-state components to high surface area forms such as thin films, coatings, and fibers.

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Tritium radioluminescence

Tritium lumination is the use of gaseous tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, to create visible light.

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Tungsten

Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.

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University of Utah College of Science

The College of Science at the University of Utah is an academic college of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Vacuum coffee maker

A vacuum coffee maker brews coffee using two chambers where vapor pressure and vacuum produce coffee.

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Vacuum flask

A vacuum flask (also known as a Dewar flask, Dewar bottle or thermos) is an insulating storage vessel that greatly lengthens the time over which its contents remain hotter or cooler than the flask's surroundings.

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Vacuum tube

In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions) is a device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated container.

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Welding

Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing fusion, which is distinct from lower temperature metal-joining techniques such as brazing and soldering, which do not melt the base metal.

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Wheaton Science Products

Wheaton Science Products is a subsidiary of Alcan based in Millville, New Jersey in the United States.

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X-ray tube

An X-ray tube is a vacuum tube that converts electrical input power into X-rays.

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Xenon arc lamp

A xenon arc lamp is a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp, an electric light that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon gas at high pressure.

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Zerodur

Zerodur (notation of the manufacturer: ZERODUR®), a registered trademark of Schott AG, is a lithium-aluminosilicate glass-ceramic produced by Schott AG since 1968.

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Zinc borate

Zinc borate is an inorganic compound, a borate of zinc.

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Zoological specimen

A zoological specimen is an animal or part of an animal preserved for scientific use.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borosilicate_glass

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