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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 94. Chapters: Glass, Quartz, Polyvinyl chloride, Nylon, Insulator, Polytetrafluoroethylene, Dielectric, Sapphire, Leyden jar, Bakelite, Mica, Soapstone, Polyethylene, Slate, Porcelain, Poly(methyl methacrylate), Plastic, Ceramic materials, Polypropylene, Polycarbonate, Polyester, BoPET, Lichtenberg figure, Neoprene, Dielectric gas, Electret, Polyimide, Electrical tape, Electrical treeing, Kapton, Polyamide, Corona ring, Electrical insulation paper, Liquid dielectric, Polymethylpentene, Rotational Brownian motion, Transformerboard, UPILEX, Plasma pencil, Chocbox, Hemingray Glass Company, Friction tape, Gate dielectric, Backstay insulator, Fishpaper, Titanium oxide, PTFE structured packing, Pressboard. Excerpt: Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent. The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, made of about 75% silica (SiO2) plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives. Often, the term glass is used in a restricted sense to refer to this specific use. In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (i.e. amorphous) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications (bottles, eyewear) polymer glasses (acrylic glass, polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate) are a lighter alternative to traditional silica glasses. Glass, as a substance, plays an essential role in science and industry. Its chemical, physical, and in particular optical properties make it suitable for applications such as flat glass, contai..
