Molten Glass
2011
What is float glass????????
Wikipedia says: Float Glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal… does that mean that there’s liquid metal, and then you pour in molten glass and wait till it floats to the top? Like oil and water?
sorry about the many question marks 
but Yahoo Answers won’t let me post a question that is less than 20 characters -__-
Actually the molten glass is flowed in from one end and is spread out to a thin sheet which is pushed/pulled down the length of a tank of molten tin under a gas blanket of nitrogen to keep the tin from oxidizing. The purpose is to produce a very smooth, very flat sheet of glass while it is cooling to the point that it can be lifted out and cut. Before float was developed, the glass had to be lifted in a wide band and bent over rollers just before it got hard and this produced distortion in the glass as it was straightened out, annealed, and cut. If you visit a house, like mine, that was built before about 1960, you can see the small ripples in the visual image through the glass. Float glass eliminates that.
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Painting With Molten Glass
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Industry/glass 1827 Photo Mugs A glass-blower rests the molten glass on a stool while he blows it into shape. …. |
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Joe Farrell Quartet $11.98 … |
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Elk 544-1ML 1-Light Pendant In Satin Nickel And Molten Lava Glass $160.20 Finish:Satin Nickel, Glass:Molten Lava, Light Bulb:(1)60w A19 Med F Incand Molten Mini Pendant Individuality is what defines this exquisite line of hand blown glass. Each piece is meticulously hand blown with up to three layers of uncompromising beauty and style. Includes 6 feet of cord and canopy… |
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544-1MS – Molten Collection Molten Sunset Glass Mini Pendant Molten Collection Molten Sunset Glass Mini Pendant – 544-1MS 1 Light 60 watt medium Width 5″ Height 11″ Includes 6 feet of clear cord Molten Sunset glass Satin Nickel finish Molten Collection… |
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Corrosion of Materials by Molten Glass (Ceramic Transactions, Vol. 78) $89.00 This proceedings contains 21 papers ranging from the corrosion of glass furnace electrodes and refractories by glass compositions to, alternatively, the contamination of glass by such corrosive interactions. Proceedings of the Corrosion of Materials by Molten Glass symposium at the 98th Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (1996)…. |
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