Volcanic glass of basaltic composition (approximately 50 wt.% SiO2) was studied as a
natural analogue to proposed nuclear waste form glasses. Basaltic glass can resist …

The objective of the current program is to develop techniques for using optical fibers to
monitor the cure of composite materials in real time during manufacture and to monitor the in …

Nowadays, a problem of historical beadworks conservation in museum collections is actual
more than ever because of fatal corrosion of the 19th century glass beads. Study of the …

The combination of Raman spectroscopy and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry can
improve understanding of the chemistry of the glass alteration process. Formic and acetic …

Quantification of water content in silicate glasses is of vital significance in understanding
magma evolution and metamorphic anataxis. Here we provide a method for the …

The refractive indices (Rl) of nine glass samples, with Rl's in the same range, were
determined using the Temperature Variation method and the Double Variation method. The …

The porosity and pore-size distribution in the glass play an important role in glass corrosion;
however, such information is difficult to be obtained non-destructively. Here we report the …

Low energy secondary ion mass spectrometry (LE-SIMS) was used to measure Na and
other elemental concentrations as a function of depth in a replica glass aged in humidities of …

This article is focused on the comparison of the reliability of the results obtained by image
analysis (newly proposed evaluation method) with well-known methods of evaluation of long …

The development of new efficient protective methods for ancient glass objects that decay
under atmosphere could only be achieved through a better understanding of the alteration …