1991/01/01 by Fritz W. Krämer, Krämer, Fritz W.
Engineering · Materials Science · #660 #Glass properties and applications #Material Science and Thermodynamics #Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
paper · doi:10.34657/14114
openalex publication_date 1991/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/09/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
To use the gas solubilities reported in the literature for binary or ternary silicate or borate melts to predict values for industrial glass melts, a basicity number concept was developed. Acidic values derived by cation-oxygen bond strengths multiplied by the mole fractions of the glass oxides were used to form a scale of basicity numbers for glass melts. The origin of this scale is the basicity number of boron oxide. This basicity number concept was successfully applied to gas solubility values for H<sub>2</sub>O, CO<sub>2</sub>, and SO<sub>2</sub> in binary and ternary glass melts and to the solubility of oxygen in glass melts with multivalent ions, such as iron, arsenic, antimony, cerium, chromium and manganese.