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Tetlow/Ceramic Engineering Glass melting - open air (UoA)
Open air glass melting furnaces
Optofab
Optofab
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Description
The open-air melting capability consists of a melting furnace with maximum temperature of 1200oC and two annealing furnaces with a maximum temperature of 500oC.
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Related Information
The open-air glass melting capability is used to produce a range of tellurite glasses; Na-Zn-La-tellurite glass (undoped or doped with fluorescent rare earth ions) is now routinely made in up to 300g raw material batch sizes.
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