fining

glassmaking

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glassmaking

  • Figure 2: The irregular arrangement of ions in a sodium silicate glass.
    In industrial glass: The conditioning chamber

    …removed in a process called fining, which takes place mostly in another section of the furnace known as the conditioning chamber (see Figure 8). From the melting chamber, the molten glass is allowed to pass through a throat in a divider wall, or bridge wall, into the conditioning chamber, where…

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