Opaque infra-red transmitting glass-ceramic articles

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106 398, 106 52, C03C 322, C03C 304

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040574342

ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to the manufacture of highly-crystalline, opaque glass-ceramic articles, wherein the primary crystal phase is a beta-spodumene solid solution, which exhibit coefficients of thermal expansion (25.degree.-700.degree. C.) less than about 15 .times. 10.sup.-7 /.degree. C. and, preferably, less than 10 .times. 10.sup.-7 /.degree. C., and wherein transmittances to infra-red radiations as great as 60% have been measured at a wavelength of 3.5 microns in samples having thicknesses of about 4.25 mm. Such articles have compositions circumscribed within a narrow field of the Li.sub.2 O--Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 --SiO.sub.2 system nucleated with TiO.sub.2 which contain ZnO as the principal modifier ion and are essentially free from the alkaline earth metal oxides, alkali metal oxides other than Li.sub.2 O, and ZrO.sub.2.

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patent: 3625718 (1971-12-01), Petticrew
patent: 3841950 (1974-10-01), Planchock et al.
patent: 3856497 (1974-12-01), Hummel

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