FORM 4: CHEMISTRY

GLASS AND CERAMIC

 GLASS

 Glass is made up by a melting sand.

 The sand used is selected quartz that
contains pure silica (silica dioxide)
 The structure of solid glass are not
arranged orderly manner and and it is
similar to the state that exists in liquid.
 Thus, the glass is classified as liquid
that extremely cold.
GLASS
 Consists of
slilicates
 Most glass are
tansparent,
chemically
inert,brittle and
impermeable
 Fused glass
 Is the simplest glass
 It is mainly silica

 It is highly heat-resistant glass.

 Example:

Laboratory apparatus.
Fused glass

 Made up by heating silica from sand

exceeding 1700 degree celcius.
 Its high viscosity makes its difficult to be
designed into items with curved.
 contains=99% silica dioxide+ 1% boron
oxide
Sodium lime glass
 It is made by heating sand by lime stone
 It can be melt at low temperature
 It is easy to be shaped and has a good chemical probability
 It is also has a high thermal coefficient
Borrosilicate glass
It was formed by adding boron side and soda-lime
glass
It has lower thermal expension coefficient.
Three times more ressistant to chemical attacks
 Lead crystal glass

 Normally called crystal or lead glass

 It is optically transparent and contains
much more lead
Dyed coloured glass

• Is made by mixing some

coloured transitions metal
oxides.
• For example, one part of nickel
oxide is sufficuent to change
glass colur from yellow to
purple depending on the original
composition of glass.
New uses of glasses

 Photochromic glass is used as

spectacles lens, which also fuction dark
glasses.
 Fibre glass is used in electrical
equipment.
 Fibre optics is used in the field of
telecomunication and medical field.
 CERAMICS

Very hard,brittle,have a very high melting point, chemically inert and

do not corrodes
 Ceramics

• They are made by from clay.

• They are good insulators of electricity and
heat
Uses of ceramics

Super conductor
Ceramic engine
Refractory
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 CREATED BY:NOR AMIRA JASMEN CLASS 4A SMKTMR 2009