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Internal surfaces of the glass component of a vacuum system are exposed to cesium in gaseous form to reduce helium permeation. The cesium gas is derived from decomposition of cesium nitrate through heating. Several minutes of exposure of the internal surfaces of the glass vessel are sufficient to complete the treatment.
Glass formulation has a high coefficient of thermal expansion. The glass makes a good hermetic seal for the end of a stainless steel or copper tube such as a sheath of an instrumentation cable.
Small units of standard glass apparatus held together by short lengths of transparent heat-shrinkable polyolefin tubing. The tubing is shrunk over glass O-ring type connectors having O-rings but no lubricant.
Matrix of manganese-alumino-silicate glass simplifies the processes of metallizing alumina ceramics. Because the manganese in the glass is preoxidized to the 2 plus state by firing in nitrogen, the ceramic can be metallized in dry hydrogen. Lengthening the firing time permits a lower metallizing temperature.
Glass coating is used on a single grid accelerator system for ion thrusters. The uniformly thin, smooth, dense, impervious glass coating has a high dielectric strength and is firmly bonded to the accelerator grid.
Geochemistry and element abundances for Henbury impact glass, Darwin glass and australites, noting evidence for meteorite impact on sandstone
New series of high expansion coefficient glasses can be sealed by fusion onto hot surfaces of metals and alloys. Glasses have relatively low working temperatures, good chemical durability, and can be used in electrical insulators and feedthroughs to fluid or vacuum systems.
New glasses are used as protective coatings on metals and alloys susceptible to oxidation at high temperatures in oxidizing atmospheres. Glasses are stable and solid at temperatures up to 1000 deg C, adhere well to metal surfaces, and are usable for metals with broad range of expansion coefficients.
Anodic bonding of glass coverslips to photodiodes and photovoltaic devices eliminates the need for adhesive. The process requires relatively low temperatures /less than 560 degrees C/ and the metals and glass remain solid throughout the bonding process.
Photolytic reactions mechanism in photochromic glass with silver halide crystals formed during glass manufacture, discussing properties and applications
Tool accurately splits glass tubing so cuts are aligned 180 deg apart and reassembled tube forms low pressure, gastight enclosure. Device should interest industries using cylindrical closed glass containers.
Application of porous glass in form of capillary tubes for low capacity ion exchange in hyperfiltration experiments is discussed. Efficiency of desalination by process of reverse osmosis is described. Stabilization of porous glass membrane by presence of aluminum chloride is analyzed.
Review of state of the art concerning glass failure mechanisms and fatigue theories discusses brittle fracture in glass, fatigue mechanisms, fatigue behavior, environmental effects on failure rate, and aging.
Electron microprobe analyses are presented for nine elements in 250 glasses and 434 pyroxenes, eight elements in 113 olivines, and six elements in 354 feldspars, 35 spinels, and 159 ilmenites. All grains are from the 125-425 micron fraction of horizon A and horizon D soil from the Luna 16 sample. A norm is presented for each glass analysis and the structural formula is calculated for each mineral analysis.
Hyperfiltration of sodium chloride and urea was studied with porous glass membranes in closed-end capillary form, to determine the effect of pressure, temperature, and concentration variations, and lifetime rejection and flux characteristics. Rejection data for sodium chloride were consistent with the functioning of the porous glass as a low-capacity ion-exchange membrane.
The origin of glazed rock fragments and glassy splatter in the bottom of fresh, 0.5- to 3.0-m-diameter lunar craters has been the subject of much debate. Evidence presented from Apollo 15 data indicates that one such crater, with an associated glass-coated projectile, is of low velocity, 'secondary' origin. It is shown that, for the crater examined, the glassy material cannot have been formed in situ by impact fusion due to the low energy involved. It is suggested that the glass in many such craters may be carried as a semi-liquid or solidified coating on incoming rock projectiles ejected from local primary impact craters of larger size.
Electron microprobe examination revealed that glassy lunar fragments had inclusions as well as boundaries between mineral glasses of different compositions. Glassy lunar spherules showed detectable heterogeneity less marked than that of the fragments. The room-temperature refractive indices and densities of the spherules are changed by heat-treating them at 500 to 700 C. The large increases (as much as 2% in density and 0.7% in index of refraction) are difficult to explain on the basis of classical glass-transition phenomena alone unless extremely rapid cooling rates are assumed. Further, the spherules darkened significantly when they were heated in air or a medium vacuum above 625 C.
The need for a canister that can release its contents without disturbing the contents dynamically is discussed. The solution of this problem by the use of a frangible glass canister is considered. The basic theory applicable to frangible glass and the method of initiating a command flaw are discussed. A brief description of the test program and the results of a flight test are presented.