General Borosilicate Glass

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Description

Borosilicate glasses have a remarkably low coefficient of thermal expansion and are therefore very resistant to thermal shock. Their main glass-forming constituents are substantial amounts of silica and boron trioxide. Usually, one distinguishes between non-alkaline earth borosilicate glass, alkaline-earth-containing borosilicate glass and high-borate borosilicate glass.

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Properties

General

PropertyTemperatureValue

Density

23.0 °C

2.1 - 2.8 g/cm³

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Mechanical

PropertyTemperatureValue

Elastic modulus

23.0 °C

50 - 70 GPa

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Hardness, Knoop, HK2

23.0 °C

400 - 480 [-]

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Poisson's ratio

23.0 °C

0.2 - 0.22 [-]

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Shear modulus

23.0 °C

26.5 - 27 GPa

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Thermal

PropertyTemperatureValue

Annealing temperature

470 - 640 °C

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Coefficient of thermal expansion

300.0 °C

3.2E-6 - 7.38E-6 1/K

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Glass transition temperature

440 - 560 °C

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Thermal conductivity

23.0 °C

0.96 - 1.2 W/(m·K)

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Vicat softening temperature

460 - 840 °C

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Electrical

PropertyTemperatureValueComment

Dielectric constant

23.0 °C

4.1 - 6.7 [-]

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Loss tangent

23.0 °C

0 - 0.01 [-]

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Optical

PropertyValue

Refractive index

1.47 - 1.52 [-]

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