General Soda-Lime Glass

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Description

Alkali alkaline earth silicate glass also known as soda-lime glass is the commercially most important glass and accounts for approximately 90% of manufactured glass. It is comparatively inexpensive and can be recycled. One distinguishes soda-lime container and flat glass.

This material data has been provided by Matmatch.

All metrics apply to room temperature unless otherwise stated. SI units used unless otherwise stated.
Equivalent standards are similar to one or more standards provided by the supplier. Some equivalent standards may be stricter whereas others may be outside the bounds of the original standard.

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General

Property	Value	Temperature
Density	2.4 - 2.5 g/cm³ Show Material materials with Density of 2.4 - 2.5 g/cm³ at 20.0 °C	20.0 °C

Mechanical

Property	Value	Temperature
Elastic modulus	70 GPa Show Material materials with Elastic modulus of 70 GPa at 20.0 °C	20.0 °C
Hardness, Mohs	510 - 710 [-] Show Material materials with Hardness, Mohs of 510 - 710 [-] at 20.0 °C	20.0 °C
Poisson's ratio	0.2 - 0.23 [-] Show Material materials with Poisson's ratio of 0.2 - 0.23 [-] at 20.0 °C	20.0 °C
Shear modulus	29.8 - 30 GPa Show Material materials with Shear modulus of 29.8 - 30 GPa at 20.0 °C	20.0 °C

Thermal

Property	Value	Temperature
Annealing temperature	530 - 560 °C Show Material materials with Annealing temperature of 530 - 560 °C
Coefficient of thermal expansion	8.3E-6 - 9.5E-6 1/K Show Material materials with Coefficient of thermal expansion of 8.3E-6 - 9.5E-6 1/K at 300.0 °C	300.0 °C
Glass transition temperature	530 - 570 °C Show Material materials with Glass transition temperature of 530 - 570 °C
Thermal conductivity	0.7 - 1.3 W/(m·K) Show Material materials with Thermal conductivity of 0.7 - 1.3 W/(m·K) at 20.0 °C	20.0 °C
Vicat softening temperature	720 - 730 °C Show Material materials with Vicat softening temperature of 720 - 730 °C

Optical

Property	Value
Refractive index	1.52 - 1.52 [-] Show Material materials with Refractive index of 1.52 - 1.52 [-]

General Soda-Lime Glass

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