Uses Of Glass Ceramics

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Uses of glass ceramics.

If aerospace is an extraordinary use for extraordinary ceramics construction is one of the best known uses for ordinary everyday ceramics. One particularly notable use of glass ceramics is in the processing of ceramic matrix composites. We can take blue and green light diodes and use our glass ceramics as a filter to obtain a wide spectrum emission that will include the ir range explains anastasia babkina. Glass ceramics are also stronger at high temperatures than glasses.

Even in our modern age of plentiful plastics brick glass cement concrete porcelain and tiles of all kinds are still the raw materials from which most buildings are made. Ceramic products are hard porous and brittle. As well as providing a bond to metals in which the glass ceramic provides a bulk component closely matched in thermal expansion 1 6 glass ceramics are very useful as media for joining together ceramic to ceramic and ceramic to metal 9 in cases where the major components are matched in expansion or where mismatch occurs. The properties and uses of some glasses and glass ceramics are given in the table below.

The tools used on construction sites are often made with ceramics too. As a result they are used to make pottery bricks tiles cements and glass. Thus the glass ceramic mgo al 2 o 3 sio 2 is used to make electrical insulators that have to operate at high temperatures such as spark plug insulators.