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GLASS TECHNOLOGY

Glass Technology Volume 33 1992

Refereed papers and presented articles. The printed copies also contain News, Reviews and Abstracts.

ARTICLES
4 Total quality management-opportunity and challenge to the container glass industry
R. A. CORNAZ
10 The manufacture of high quality space glass
C. A. KITCHEN
13 The bottle manufacturing process and improvements regarding monitoring and control
H. SEIDEL
PAPERS
19 Preparation of Li2O(SiO2)n and coatings via sol-gel procedures
A. R. HYDE & G. PARTRIDGE
23 The relationship between refractive index and composition for fluoride glasses
LIPENG ZHANG & FUXI GAN
27 Influences of compositional factors on the dielectric loss of glasses
CHEN GUORONG
30 A study of the interface between silicon carbide fibre and lithium aluminosilicate glass ceramic matrix
A. JHA & M. D. MOORE
ARTICLES
41 Quality communication
R. F. WELSH
45 A quality reputation
T. W. HARPER
47 Glass container inspection in the 21st century
J. A. SCHEMENAUR
PAPERS
49 Viscosity measurements on glasses obtained from alkaline volcanic rocks of the Canary Islands
I. VICENTE-MINGARRO, J. M. RINCON, P. BOWLES, R. D. RAWLINGS & P. S. ROGERS
53 Influence of composition factors on the low temperature viscosity of insulator glass
HU SHUIGEN & CHEN GUORONG
57 The mechanical strength of glass substrates
T. KASUGA, T. UNO, S. EDA, K. TACHIWANA & A. J. IKUSHIMA
60 The natural corrosion of glass: the formation and structure of plugs
G. A. COX & A.-R. KHOOLI
ARTICLES
65 Forming tableware
D. A. MURRAY
68 The working environment: `better safe than sorry'
R. MCMANUS
71 A consumer looks at the broader aspects of quality (from a packaging technologist's point of view)
D. A. DEAN
PAPERS
84 Crystallisation characteristics of certain lithium manganese aluminosilicate glasses and the effect of adding TiO2 or ZrO2
A. W. A. EL-SHENNAWI
92 William Vernon Harcourt: pioneer glass scientist and founder of the British Association
M. CABLE & J. W. SMEDLEY
98 Spectrophotometric method for the determination of hafnium and aluminium in zirconia and zircon sand after separation of zirconium with tri-n-butyl phosphate
J. K. MONDAL & S. K. ROY
ARTICLES
112 The use of ceramic welding to extend the life of a furnace
T. S. BUSBY AND J. R. MACKINTOSH
117 Cost effective air compressor maintenance
C. WOOTTON
120 Compresed air filtration
D. W. HART
124 Compressed air systems
B. PARK
PAPERS
130 Development of a composition suitable for the production of alkali-resistant glass fibres with a low fibrising temperature
P. Å IMURKA, M. LIÅ KA, A. PLÅ KO & K. FORKEL
136 The cooling of optical fibres during the drawing process
H. PAPAMICHAEL & I. N. MIAOULIS
141 Batch to oxide percentage and oxide percentage to batch calculations for glass processing
D. ÖKSOY & L. D. PYE
ARTICLES
154 A view of the European glass industry from Turkey
A. YARAMAN
158 The UK glass industry - the European context
J. M. FLANAGAN
161 Glass container manufacturing machinery - present situation and trends
H.-G. SEIDEL
PAPERS
167 The temperature distribution in a glass melt correlated with glass tank depth
D. RADU & O. DUMITRESCU
170 The structural modelling of silicate glasses
D. RADU
173 Determination of total and sulphide sulphur in float glass by ion chromatography
X. Y. SHI, K. S. NASEV, M. P. BRUNGS & D. L. YOUNG
176 Photochromic glass by ion-exchange
XIE JUNLIN, HE FENG & XU CHAO
COMMUNICATION
179 The future of the Ballidon glass burial experiment
R. G. NEWTON
ARTICLES
187 Environment - challenges to the flat glass industry
D. NORMAN
195 Environment - EC aspects and controls
G. ROBYNS
PAPERS
209 Determination of selenium in glass by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy after extraction with dithizone: a comparison with x-ray fluorescence and vapour generation atomic absorption spectroscopy
E. GUADAGNINO, G. C. DE DIANA, B. M. SCALET & M. L. SCANDELLARI
214 Development of a low temperature phosphate sealing glass
Y. HE & D. E. DAY

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