Crystals in glass : a hidden beauty /

• Main Author: Zanotto, E. D. (Edgar Dutra)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2013]
• Subjects: Glass-ceramics.; Silicon crystals.; Nucleation.; Crystaliation.; SCIENCE > Chemistry > Industrial & Technical.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Chemical & Biochemical.; Electronic books.

A ""must-have"" for materials engineers, chemists, physicists, and geologists, this is one of the first ""coffee-table"" books in the field of glass science. Containing over fifty beautiful micrographs, the book reflects 35 years of original research by a high...

Table of Contents:

• Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; About this book; Table of Contents; Forward; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Glass Myth Shattered; Chapter 1: Crystals in Glass; Part 1: Interna Nucleation In Glasses; Part 2: Surface Nucleation on Glasses; Part 3: Viscous Sintering With Concurrent Crystallization; Part 4: Eutectic Crystallization; Part 5: Cracks And Bubbles In Glass-Ceramics